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Argument: Illegal immigrants in America should be integrated into society
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]Parent debate
- Debate:Illegal immigrants and drivers licenses in the US, pro argument: that offering illegal immigrants access to driver's licenses is part of integrating them into American society.
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]Supporting evidence
- Clark Kent Ervin. "Why N.Y. driver's license plan might make us safer". USAToday. November 1, 2007 - "We can either ignore reality and make policy that flies in its face, or we can acknowledge reality and make policy that works around it. The reality is that the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country will remain here, still more illegal immigrants are likely to come, and those illegal immigrants who can and wish to drive will do so."
- "IMMIGRATION: Life Without a License. Illegal immigrants want to be legal drivers." SFGate.com. February 10, 2002 - "Each weekday morning, Miguel B. leaves his Richmond home and drives his 6-year-old son to school before heading to work in San Leandro. It's a familiar routine for working parents everywhere, but for Miguel the daily drive has become nerve-wracking: He is an undocumented immigrant who no longer has a driver's license."...
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]Supporting books
- Victor Davis Hanson. Mexifornia: A State of Becoming. 2003 (a summary of this book). - "Abstract: Victor Davis Hanson’s book examines the effects of changes in California’s immigration policy over the past thirty years. Hanson asserts that the dismal education and income statistics for illegal immigrants currently residing in California are the result of a move from an assimilation model of integrating immigrants to a push for multiculturalism. Hanson presents several policy solutions to prevent the eventual development of what he calls 'Mexifornia,' a hyrbrid civilization that is neither purely Mexico nor purely California, yet these entail either a return to the complete assimilation of immigrants or draconian cutbacks to the admission of non-citizens. This Book Review proposes a fifth option—the “state action” option—which involves the California government, through the passage of legislation, supporting the integration of its current undocumented immigrant population while ensuring that its members attain certain basic levels of citizenship."