Immigrants Plead For Minnesota Drivers Licenses

Jose Sanchez says his immigrant community fears living without driver’s licenses.

“Our community needs licenses to get around, to get to work, to get to school,” he told a Minnesota House committee Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017.

“I ask that you listen to us and deal with your heart,” he pleaded before the Republican-controlled committee voted 8-6 along party lines to keep in a provision that would enact a law banning immigrants to the United States without legal documentation from getting a license.

Current state law is silent on whether undocumented immigrants can get licenses, but a state rule bans it. Proponents of allowing undocumented immigrants to get licenses say it would improve safety on the roads and decrease those driving illegally and without insurance.

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