Thursday, October 23, 2014
Illegal Immigrants Warned To Study Hard For Their California Driver’s License Written Test
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— Illegal immigrants hoping to obtain their California driver’s license come January are being encouraged to study for the written test. The preparation is a warning following Nevada’s recent high-failure rates.
In the first few weeks of implementation for Nevada’s driver authorization card, 90 percent of illegal immigrants flunked the written test.
“It’s particular for immigrant communities, but also beyond. There’s actually a high-failure rate for driver’s license testing in general that it’s actually a difficult test,” said Lucia Lin with the Bay Area Policy Immigration Center.
She says people are reminded to study for the test. The Department of Motor Vehicle’s (DMV) website has the driver’s manual translated into many languages and the test is available in many languages....
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/15/illegal-immigrants-warned-to-study-hard-for-their-california-drivers-license-written-test/
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Undocumented Central Valley immigrants prepare to obtain driver’s licenses
...Starting Jan. 1, California residents who can’t prove they are in United States legally will be allowed to obtain driver’s licenses under Assembly Bill 60, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last year....
The Department of Motor Vehicles estimates that around 1.5 million immigrants will end up with the new licenses, which will cost $33. Advocate groups estimate there are about 39,000 Stanislaus County residents who have entered the country illegally....
To help handle the anticipated influx of drivers seeking licenses, the DMV is hiring close to 1,000 additional employees, an increase of about 11 percent, said agency spokesman Armando Botello. Four new offices opened around the state....
Fresno will see 35 additional employees, most at the Olive Avenue office. Leaders of Fresno immigrant rights groups think the Valley impact could be somewhere around 200,000 new licenses.
But some of those leaders worry the Spanish test is incomprehensible for Central Valley immigrants. Raul Moreno, chief executive officer of the Education and Leadership Foundation, said many immigrants here have a third- or fourth-grade education and come from rural areas. The Spanish vocabulary used in the DMV study material is very proper, he said.
For example, within a set of flashcards with translations for traffic signals, the “Keep right” sign is translated to “Conserve su derecha.” Moreno said most Spanish-speaking Valley immigrants would say, “Sigue a su derecha” instead.
“You’ve got to speak the language that the people speak,” Moreno said....
http://www.modbee.com/2014/10/19/3600051/undocumented-central-valley-immigrants.htmlMonday, October 20, 2014
Arizona's Denial of Driver's Licenses To DACA Recipients Blocked by Ninth Circuit
[Another in the License To Drive: The History of the U.S. Driver's License project]
http://www.bna.com/arizonas-denial-drivers-n17179891949/
July 8, 2014 — A group of deferred action for childhood arrivals [DACA] recipients who are being denied driver's licenses in Arizona, which they allege interferes with their federal work authorization, are likely to succeed on the merits of their equal protection claim, a federal appeals court ruled July 7, ordering that a preliminary injunction be issued.
Although postponing the plaintiffs' preemption argument, the three-judge panel found that the plaintiffs—five DACA recipients and one immigrant-serving organization—sufficiently proved that the state's distinction between DACA recipients and applicants for adjustment of status or cancellation of removal violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....
http://www.bna.com/arizonas-denial-drivers-n17179891949/
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