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‘A betrayal:’ California to share data on immigrant drivers nationally
CALMATTERS ^ | April 28, 2026 | BY KHARI JOHNSON AND WENDY FRY

Posted on 04/28/2026 8:15:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower

California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders, including immigrants who do not have legal authorization to live in the U.S.

That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago when it began issuing licenses to unauthorized immigrants, advocates say, and it means more than 1 million people may face higher risk of deportation.

(Excerpt) Read more at calmatters.org ...


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More than 1 million people have obtained driver’s licenses in California under Assembly Bill 60, a law passed in 2013. The law prohibs the state from using information obtained in the licensure process to consider an individual’s citizenship.


It was called the Sikh truck driver bill

1 posted on 04/28/2026 8:15:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
Gosh, that might put a dent in the "housing affordability crisis."

Can't have that; real estate is the biggest industry in the State.

2 posted on 04/28/2026 8:19:10 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Gotta be the threat to cut off federal funding transfers.


3 posted on 04/28/2026 8:21:25 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: artichokegrower

I don’t trust any data coming from Gavin Newsom’s administration - you can be sure the numbers will be fudged.


4 posted on 04/28/2026 8:22:02 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Gotta be the threat to cut off federal funding transfers.

One wonders how many bureaucrat mouths that feeds. SSI is the biggest cash flow in the County of Santa Cruz.

5 posted on 04/28/2026 8:26:42 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: artichokegrower

the state was in the wrong to create the law, because federally it’s illegal.


6 posted on 04/28/2026 8:29:36 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: artichokegrower

It is better for state officials to repudiate an illegal promise than to get indicted by the Trump DOJ for harboring and facilitating illegal immigration.


7 posted on 04/28/2026 9:00:49 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: artichokegrower

What??? A leftest, A woke joke admin throwing someone under the bus????

That’s what good leftest do....

In reality someone or some groups revenue steam was threatened.


8 posted on 04/28/2026 9:43:29 AM PDT by BFW
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To: artichokegrower

I like this idea, even if the far-leftist who proposed it didn’t understand the impact. From the article:

“ Rosenberg with Oakland Privacy suggested that the state might be better off opting out of the Real ID system than sharing information about its license holders, noting that more than 60 percent of Californians already have passports.

“I just wonder what would happen if the state asked Californians to get a passport in order to fly for a couple of years in order to protect 1 million Californians with AB 60 licenses. Maybe we should give people that opportunity.”


9 posted on 04/28/2026 9:55:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: artichokegrower

Any contract that involves illegal acts, violates statutes, or is against public policy is unenforceable. Examples include contracts to commit crimes or to bribe officials.


10 posted on 04/28/2026 10:26:17 AM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all)
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To: artichokegrower

California driver’s licenses anyone can get one only requriement be warm.


11 posted on 04/28/2026 12:22:48 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Carry_Okie

So the California State Government knows of more than 1 million people in the USA illegally and has taken no action to enforce US immigration laws??? It seems to me that those responsible are complicit in criminal activity.


12 posted on 04/28/2026 12:44:03 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: artichokegrower

Debate is easy when your opponent makes a totally lame argument:

“That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago when it began issuing licenses to unauthorized immigrants, advocates say, and it means more than 1 million people may face higher risk of deportation.”

Totally lame responses give clarity.

DJT: Make America Great Again.
Governor Cuomo: America was never that great to begin with.


13 posted on 04/28/2026 12:56:04 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Vaduz
California driver’s licenses anyone can get one only requriement be warm.

Then how are the DEAD in California supposed to get to the polls to VOTE ?

14 posted on 04/28/2026 1:33:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Sailing the Sea of Ignorance on a Ship named Free Republic)
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To: Savage Beast
It seems to me that those responsible are complicit in criminal activity.

And has been since the FedGove "motor voter" statute enacted during the Clinton administration.

15 posted on 04/28/2026 1:45:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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