Immigrant activists lament cancelation of House hearing on IDs for undocumented residents

Sep 16, 2021 View Original Article
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"Prior to 2008, undocumented immigrants were able to obtain driver's licenses in Michigan."
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24% Conservative
"Healing relations between communities and law enforcement is at the heart of the legislation, said Ted Nelson, of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), a non-partisan group of law enforcement persoel."
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24% Conservative
"Allowing adults access to obtain a driver's license will help all of us, including law enforcement."
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18% Conservative
"Advocates point to the obstacles undocumented people without identification often face, like being unable to open a bank account, enter their children's public school buildings or interact with law enforcement."
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-12% Liberal
"I was supposed to give testimony today to represent myself, having spent my career with the Michigan State Police, I can speak from firsthand experience on criminal justice issues, Nelson said."
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-20% Liberal
"Having large amounts of drivers without licenses places an uecessary burden on law enforcement and wastes time and resources, he said."
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-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Prior to 2008, undocumented immigrants were able to obtain driver's licenses in Michigan.
62% : Healing relations between communities and law enforcement is at the heart of the legislation, said Ted Nelson, of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), a non-partisan group of law enforcement personnel.
59% : Allowing adults access to obtain a driver's license will help all of us, including law enforcement."
44% : Advocates point to the obstacles undocumented people without identification often face, like being unable to open a bank account, enter their children's public school buildings or interact with law enforcement.
40% : "I was supposed to give testimony today to represent myself, having spent my career with the Michigan State Police, I can speak from firsthand experience on criminal justice issues," Nelson said.
33% : Having large amounts of drivers without licenses places an unnecessary burden on law enforcement and wastes time and resources, he said.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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