If Feds Try to ID Deportable Immigrants Using California Data, State Will Block Access

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Gov. Jerry Brown with his choice for state attorney general, Xavier Becerra. Photo by Steve Yeater for CALmatters

By Elizabeth Aguilera, Calmatters.org

Ever since Maribel Solache began teaching her own version of driver’s ed in Spanish two years ago, the classes — held around San Diego County — have been jammed. She estimates she’s helped some 3,000 students earn their licenses. But lately, apprehension has smothered that enthusiasm.
“More people come with fear. They say ‘what is going to happen to my information?’ ” she said. “I tell them they have to get [their driver’s licenses] before Jan. 20. Before Donald Trump.”

Read the complete story at Calmatters.org.

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