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Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In 2005, immigration lawyers were all embroiled in advocacy and outrage over REAL ID legislation pending in Congress. The media covered the major purpose of the bill, requiring the states to issue drivers licenses and other identification only to documented aliens. The fact that undocumented aliens now cannot get drivers licenses or renew existing licenses in most states is attributable to the REAL ID Act. Immigration lawyers were not that involved in ID issues. Rather there were other aspects of…