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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 760496" data-attributes="member: 12952">• New Mexico issued 10,257 licenses to immigrants through June,&nbsp; compared with 13,481 for all of 2009. The figures include illegal&nbsp; immigrants and legal residents from outside the U.S.&nbsp;• New Mexico issued about 417 licenses a week to immigrants from the&nbsp; day after Arizona passed its law through July 1. That is a big jump from&nbsp; the 323 a week it was issuing from Jan. 1 to the day before the law&nbsp; passed.&nbsp;• Utah handed out 41,000 illegal-immigrant licenses for 2010 through June 7, compared with 43,429 for all of 2008.&nbsp;• Washington granted 3,200 licenses to people from outside the U.S. through June, exceeding the pace of 5,992 for all of 2009.<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15773267" target="_blank">Denver Post</a>Three states — Washington, New Mexico and Utah — allow illegal&nbsp; immigrants to get licenses because their laws do not require proof of&nbsp; citizenship or legal residency. An Associated Press analysis found that&nbsp; those states have seen a surge in immigrants seeking IDs in recent&nbsp; months, a trend experts attribute to crackdowns on illegal immigration&nbsp; in Arizona and elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 760496, member: 12952"] • New Mexico issued 10,257 licenses to immigrants through June, compared with 13,481 for all of 2009. The figures include illegal immigrants and legal residents from outside the U.S. • New Mexico issued about 417 licenses a week to immigrants from the day after Arizona passed its law through July 1. That is a big jump from the 323 a week it was issuing from Jan. 1 to the day before the law passed. • Utah handed out 41,000 illegal-immigrant licenses for 2010 through June 7, compared with 43,429 for all of 2008. • Washington granted 3,200 licenses to people from outside the U.S. through June, exceeding the pace of 5,992 for all of 2009. [URL="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15773267"]Denver Post[/URL] [B]Three states — Washington, New Mexico and Utah — allow illegal immigrants to get licenses because their laws do not require proof of citizenship or legal residency. An Associated Press analysis found that those states have seen a surge in immigrants seeking IDs in recent months, a trend experts attribute to crackdowns on illegal immigration in Arizona and elsewhere.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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