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Professor Cade asserts "Increasingly, states use driver's licensing to achieve objectives unrelated to road safety. For example, many states now suspend driver's licenses to compel court appearances and to recoup debt or unpaid tickets. States also employ regulatory and criminal laws concerning driver's licenses to achieve immigrant enforcement objectives that cannot be pursued directly. Although state governments cannot lawfully prohibit migrants from entering or remaining in a state, licensure prohibitions coupled with criminal penalties provide a facially neutral means of policing and punishing noncitizens who lack status. In this way, no-license laws have been weaponized against migrant residents, facilitating a proxy form of state immigration regulation. The weaponization of no-license laws against immigrants and their families has received scant attention in academic literature. In articles now two decades old, Kevin Johnson and María Pabón López both recognized the primacy of driver's licenses for immigrant communities and framed access as a civil rights issue. More recently, Annie Lai explained how driver's license schemes work to effectuate state or local immigration policies that cannot be pursued directly. But even among the few articles to have problematized the criminalization of undocumented drivers, identification of viable legal interventions to push back against proliferating license restrictions has remained challenging."

Professor Weeden asserts "It is my position that the Supreme Court has recognized that the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause applies the equality principle to undocumented resident immigrants when the lack of equality creates a systemic underclass of undocumented immigrants in a state. The Court has rejected the claim that undocumented immigrants are categorically entitled to be recognized as a suspect class. However, I believe undocumented immigrants residing in a state should be treated as a suspect or a quasi-suspect class when they are denied an opportunity to acquire a driver's license because such a denial substantially increases the risk that the undocumented immigrant will become members of a permanent underclass unable to take care of the health of her child adequately. Undocumented immigrants who are residents of the state in which they live should not be denied the generally available benefit of a driver's license because such a denial is very poor public policy. Many state lawmakers promote good public policy by making the case that granting undocumented immigrants access to a driver's license advances the improved safety for all drivers and foot travelers. “A driver's license for undocumented immigrants would allow foreigners to cope more practically and safely with their daily activities. Things like taking their children to school and buying an insurance policy for their car would become easier and safer.” The categorical driver's license denial approach is poor public policy because that policy undermines traffic safety by making it unnecessarily burdensome for an undocumented immigrant driver to become a safe, licensed driver. “Immigrants who do not have the legal documents to reside in the United States can face significant restrictions. One of these is getting an identification card or a driver's license.”"

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I left my job as a high-volume H-1B immigration attorney to eventually start LaborLess to automate LCA and PAF compliance. I'm not exaggerating when I say that LCAs and PAFs are my life 😄 So, I'm incredibly excited to get to talk about this *exact* topic tomorrow alongside two great BAL attorneys - Steve Plastrik and Lauren Randle. So, if you're an in-house immigration or mobility professional, whether you work with BAL or not, (or even if you're a fellow immigration lawyer) and you deal with H-1Bs in any capacity especially now during cap season, please join us tomorrow, Wed, 4/17 at 1pm EST, for an in-depth discussion about LCA and PAF compliance and automation! Here's what we're going to discuss: ⚙️ OVERVIEW OF LCAs & PAFs in case anyone in the audience is fairly new at it), ⚙️ HOW TO DEAL WITH REMOTE WORKER LCA COMPLIANCE, especially as more people work remotely than ever before ⚙️ HOW TO PROTECT EMPLOYEE PRIVACY, especially when their home *is* an official worksite, which means it becomes public information on the LCA, ⚙️ FDNS SITE VISITS, which no one likes lol, and ⚙️ PAF TRENDS, in terms of maintaining, destroying, etc. . . . Please register here, and join us tomorrow at 1pm EST! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ezwAvwrS 👈 #h1bvisa #immigration #immigrationlaw #globalmobility #relocation

Can #UndocumentedImmigrants Get a Driver's License? via LawInfo: https://bit.ly/3KHgJpd. “Immigrants who do not have the legal documents to reside in the United States can face significant restrictions. One of these is getting an identification card or a driver's license. These documents are issued by each state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) based on a person's Social Security number. Since an undocumented immigrant does not have access to Social Security, it can be impossible for them to apply. Changing Laws Surrounding Driver's Licenses: Many state lawmakers argue that obtaining a license guarantees better safety for all drivers and pedestrians. A driver's license for undocumented immigrants would allow foreigners to cope more practically and safely with their daily activities. Things like taking their children to school and buying an insurance policy for their car would become easier and safer. They could also train in the state's traffic laws in which they live, take their theoretical driving test, and then show their practical driving skills to certify that they understand the state's traffic rules." READ MORE HERE: https://bit.ly/3KHgJpd Contact us today for your free consultation. If we can help you, even if it's just to answer a question, please feel free to call our office anytime at (949) 679-4250. We're here for you! #Irvine #OrangeCounty #Lawyer #Attorney #ImmigrationLawyer

Very excited to have our CEO Roman Zelichenko, JD share thoughts, tips and updates on LCA and PAF compliance and automation alongside Steve Plastrik and Lauren Randle at BAL. Please join them tomorrow, Wednesday April 17, at 1pm EST! Register for the event here: https://lnkd.in/eX6hW_JQ #h1bvisa #immigration #immigrationlaw

Before I get into this, let me state, I am all for immigration, our nation was founded and grew due to immigration. At the same time immigration must be done #legally, #sustainably, and #responsibly! This move by the State of Illinois does nothing but put #LEGAL #USCitizens at risk not just in Illinois but across the nation. This move also completely contradicts the #USConstitution and the individual states #DUTY and #OBLIGATION by which #ELECTEDOFFICIALS are sworn to #UPHOLD AND #PROTECT the laws of the land and citizens they #SERVE. I certainly haven’t seen, witnessed, nor heard of any discrimination currently happening. Immigration Enforcement Laws exist for a reason, use them, they matter. “As of June 2024, suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, or Aragua Train, are linked to over 100 criminal cases in Illinois and Indiana. Federal authorities have opened investigations into these crimes.” From Jesus Romero Let me ask this, Is someone’s feeling worth the safety and security of our homeland? Is it too much to ask for people to be here and come here lawfully? Other nations around the world have #zerotolerance policies on illegal immigration. State of Illinois’ Office of Homeland Security how does this help you accomplish your mission and keep your citizens safe? Allowing for easier #freedomofmovement seems to do just the opposite. #NOTinTexas #LawfulImmigration #ICE #HomelandSecurity #OperationLoneStar National Security Agency Thomas Homan Robert A. Heber Jr. Grant Rogers Hunter Healy Rik Thrailkill Derek France U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Andrew Bustamante, MBA Shawn Ryan Sarah Adams Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott Greg Abbott Michael Banks Texas Attorney General Texas Military Department Texas Department of Public Safety Illinois State Police

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