Bills in Arizona’s House and Senate look to provide driver’s licenses to all

PHOENIX – A neighborhood nonprofit is asking on Arizona state legislators to “permit driver’s licenses to all.”

HB 2604 and SB1587, if handed, would give all Arizona residents an opportunity to obtain a driver’s license no matter authorized standing. The 2 payments are known as “mirror payments” as they had been introduced up within the Home and Senate on the identical time.

An undocumented pupil at Arizona State, Maria Garcia, explains how this could impression her, saying, “It expands to lots of people like myself and my dad and mom. It is extra of a security factor for me and for the roads of Arizona.”

Garcia is a Dreamer, double majoring in political science and transborder research.

“I am undocumented, I am a Dreamer, I by no means acquired DACA. DACA would give me a driver’s license, a type of identification, and it simply offers me that security that I have not had,” Garcia mentioned.

Particularly, security on the roads when Garcia is driving to and from faculty.

“My greatest concern is I’ve to drive, I’ve to go to highschool. I’ve to go to my physician’s appointments. It is simply, I do not know if the police will pull me over, what is going to occur as a result of I am unable to get deported,” she mentioned.

Arizona Home Consultant Flavio Bravo, who represents central west Phoenix and Glendale is one in every of 18 sponsors of HB 2604.

“If this doesn’t move, we face the continued establishment that persons are driving unlicensed, uninsured and that is unsafe,” Bravo mentioned.

Aliento, a nonprofit group for the immigrant neighborhood, has the identical argument.

“I believe this could be good for Arizona. We’ve got seen after we’re capable of revise driver’s licenses for a inhabitants, on this case, DACA recipients, that basically permits us to have extra transparency and extra belief throughout regulation enforcement after which why are we creating particular boundaries for folks to only drive safely,” the nonprofit’s spokesperson mentioned.

Once more, these payments are at first levels. The following steps can be to assign it to a committee.