As of 2014, Idaho is home to 95,525 immigrants whom 67.5% are undocumented. Idaho also had 3,875 Latino business owners producing 457.3 million dollars in sales and employing 4,145 workers as of 2007. Latinos in Idaho as consumers contributed to the state economy 3.34 billion dollars in 2014. Illegal immigrants are comprise are 4.6% of states work force, about approximately 35,000 workers in 2013 according to Pew Hispanic Center (New American in Idaho). A problem that immigrants face is not being able to transport oneself to places. As Sarah E. Hendricks Ph.D. lecturer in Department of sociology at Drake University explains, “The United States is among the top motor-vehicle dependent countries in the world, and immigrants arriving in the United
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Giving illegal immigrants driver’s license would help law enforcement catch terrorist faster; As Bruce Schneier, Security technologist and prolific author on security-related issues informs “The state driver’s license databases are . . . more complete, and contain more information . . . than the IRS database, the Social Security database, or state birth certificate databases. As such, they are an invaluable police tool — for investigating crimes, tracking down suspects, and proving guilt.”(Why 3). Giving identity to millions of people more will ease and quicken the speed cases in finding criminals. Taking in consideration thoughts of a former Sacramento police chief, Art Venegas, “The question is an economic one for police, because every time we stop someone who has no identification, it takes a lot of manpower to identify that person. An officer will spend up to 2 or 3 hours to determine who an arrestee is.”(Why 3). Thus the National Security will be strengthened. In fact 10 states have allowed illegal immigrants to obtain a driver’s license including Washington, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Puerto Rico, District of Colombia, Vermont and
Giving illegal immigrants driver’s license would help law enforcement catch terrorist faster; As Bruce Schneier, Security technologist and prolific author on security-related issues informs “The state driver’s license databases are . . . more complete, and contain more information . . . than the IRS database, the Social Security database, or state birth certificate databases. As such, they are an invaluable police tool — for investigating crimes, tracking down suspects, and proving guilt.”(Why 3). Giving identity to millions of people more will ease and quicken the speed cases in finding criminals. Taking in consideration thoughts of a former Sacramento police chief, Art Venegas, “The question is an economic one for police, because every time we stop someone who has no identification, it takes a lot of manpower to identify that person. An officer will spend up to 2 or 3 hours to determine who an arrestee is.”(Why 3). Thus the National Security will be strengthened. In fact 10 states have allowed illegal immigrants to obtain a driver’s license including Washington, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Puerto Rico, District of Colombia, Vermont and