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Old 10-01-2012, 12:03 PM
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Immigrants to get driver's licenses

10/01/2012

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown had both good and bad news for undocumented immigrants and their advocates Sunday night, signing one bill that could ease their lives while vetoing another.

The bill that Brown signed will allow thousands of young California immigrants to receive a California driver's license. The one he rejected would have limited the ability of local jails to hold immigrants for federal deportation proceedings.

Under the latter bill, AB1081 by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, jails would only be able to hold for possible deportation those immigrants who had previously committed or were accused of violent crimes. But that limitation would leave out immigrants who had been convicted of crimes such as child abuse, drug trafficking and selling weapons, Brown said in his veto message.

"The list of offenses codified in the bill is fatally flawed because it omits many serious crimes," Brown wrote.

It was one of about 100 bills that Brown either vetoed or signed on Sunday, his last day to act on bills sent to him by the Legislature when its session ended in August. He also signed a bill that could one day free some criminals who were sentenced as juveniles to life in prison, and another making California the first state to ban a form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.

Brown also signed a bill that will force parents who don't want to have their children vaccinated to get a
note from a doctor's office before enrolling them in school.

AB2109 will require parents who enroll students who have not received the required public school vaccines to get a waiver from a physician or a nurse practitioner, saying they have received information about the benefits and risks of immunization. The new requirement will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.

Among the vetoed bills were one that would have let judges declare that some California children have more than two legal parents and another increasing the media's access to prison inmates.

Brown said he was sympathetic with the aim of Ammiano's bill, and the governor vowed to work with the Legislature to fix the problems he found in it.

Brown had better news for young immigrants seeking work.

The Obama administration recently announced a program to grant temporary work permits and a reprieve from possible deportation to undocumented immigrants 30 and younger who were brought to this country before they turned 16 and who meet other requirements such as having a clean record and a high school diploma.

Under the law Brown signed, AB2189, by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, those immigrants who qualify for the Obama program would also be allowed to get driver's licenses. The governor didn't immediately comment on why he signed the legislation, but the bill's backers cheered the decision.

Thanks to the new law, "this group of young immigrants, who have dreamed of driving, will join our roadways tested, licensed and insured," Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said in a statement.

The issue has been settled in some states -- Texas, Virginia and Oregon among them -- that have said they will allow driver's licenses for immigrants obtaining what the Obama administration calls "deferred action for childhood arrivals."

Arizona and Nebraska have pledged to deny driver's licenses to anyone who benefits from the federal relief.

Nationwide, more than 100,000 young immigrants have applied for the deferred deportations since the Department of Homeland Security began accepting applications on Aug. 15, but only a few dozen have been approved. Federal officials have left it up to state governments to decide if they will grant licenses and other benefits to those getting the work authorization.

California's DMV originally said it would grant the licenses, since it already accepts federal work permits as a valid form of documentation, but later said the state would need to clarify its rules. The law signed by Brown on Sunday does just that.

California voters oppose giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants on a 56 percent to 40 percent margin, but it is an important issue to Latino voters, 60 percent of whom support the licenses, according to a Field Poll released Friday. The poll did not specifically ask about Cedillo's bill, which affects a more limited population of youths who came to the country as children.

The same poll found 67 percent of California voters support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants if they meet certain requirements.

Ammiano's bill, known as the Trust Act, had a strong following. In addition to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and hundreds of other activists, the bill has won endorsements from celebrity advocates in the past week, from actor Martin Sheen to Los Angeles Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahoney.

The bill was aimed at lessening the high number of deportations that have come through the Secure Communities network, which sends the fingerprints of everyone arrested in the state to federal agents, who then request local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants after their local custody is completed. Brown, as attorney general, signed the state-federal partnership in 2009 and defended the program throughout his 2010 campaign for governor.

The Obama administration considers Secure Communities a centerpiece of its enforcement priorities to deport criminals from the country, but critics say the program deports far too many non-criminals and people picked up for traffic violations and other low-level offenses.

Most of the state's county sheriffs opposed the bill, saying it would interfere with their work and force them to defy federal enforcement prerogatives.

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