I'd be curious to know how many illegal aliens have taken advantage of this in California, because it actually works against illegal aliens in some ways. For one thing, the license you get as an illegal alien is not the same as the one you get as a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant. So anyone who sees the license is going to know right away that the person is in the country illegally.
I'm also not sure the licensing of an illegal alien is all that relevant here. I suspect most states don't have any mechanism to enforce this sort of thing anyway. For example, if I am here in the U.S. on a one-year visa and then the visa expires but I stay here, what mechanism does a state like California have to cancel my driver's license?
Well said. My point is that it is that local governments are breaking no laws when they refuse to help the feds with illegal immigration. But they (and private employers as well), are in fact breaking laws when they aid and abet illegal immigrants. The technicalities of how the feds can use this leverage is for smart people such as yourself to figure out.
How abut the ones they buy from compadres at the local DMV? One of the LA TV stations did an expose on that very thing many years ago. Showed exactly how easy it was, pay the outside man and he gave you a special ugly bracelet to wear and the stooge inside would falsify all the info and issue a real Driving license. Simple as that.