California Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing illegal immigrants to obtain a state ID

California residents can now purchase a state ID no matter immigration standing below a regulation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. 

“We’re a state of refuge – a majority-minority state, the place 27 % of us are immigrants,” Newsom stated after signing the laws. “That’s why I’m proud to announce the signing of right now’s payments to additional assist our immigrant group, which makes our state stronger each single day.”

A regulation handed in 2013 permits California residents to acquire a driver’s license, however the invoice that was signed Friday will enable non-driving residents to accumulate a government-issued ID, even when they aren’t a authorized immigrant. 

The invoice’s sponsors framed ID playing cards as “passports to financial and societal participation” that enable people to entry banking companies, acquire authorities advantages, and purchase well being care. 

About 22% of California’s practically 11 million immigrants are in the US illegally, in response to the Public Coverage Institute of California. 

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In the future after signing the invoice, Newsom traveled to Texas, the place he focused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for bussing and flying migrants to blue cities, and regardless of California’s 2017 ban on official journey to the Lone Star State. 

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“The one factor that he did is he broke with precedent, any precedent of decency and honor, his lack of character on show,” Newsom stated on the Texas Tribune Pageant in Austin about DeSantis. 

“He comes into one other state – your state – to attempt to discover pawns in a political sport, rounds them up, sends them to an island, after which fundraises off it. What does that say about his character, and the character of the Republican Social gathering that celebrated that act of cruelty and dehumanization?”