{"id":2186,"date":"2007-07-17T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2007-08-24T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T02:14:54","slug":"new-haven-opts-to-validate-its-illegal-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"New Haven opts to validate its illegal residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Connecticut city begins issuing ID cards July 24 to undocumented immigrants, a first in the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Caitlin Carpenter, <em>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0717\/p02s01-ussc.html\">17 July 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a time when a rising number of states and cities are cracking down on illegal immigrants, New Haven, Conn., is reaching out to them with a unique perk: an ID card.<\/p>\n<p>Besides serving as identification for bank services and if police ask for ID, the card can be used at municipal locations such as libraries, beaches, and parks &#8211; and as a debit card for city parking meters and at 15 downtown shops.<\/p>\n<p>Cities &#8211; and critics &#8211; across the country are watching closely as New Haven prepares to hand out its first batch of cards July 24. The idea: integrate illegal immigrants into the community, protect them from crime that can happen because of a lack of documentation, and encourage them to be more willing to report crimes to police. Reaction to the first-of-a-kind program has been swift and sharp, illustrating the wide divide in US public opinion over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re the only city nationwide to have this program, so it&#8217;s an opportunity we have to take to be a part of normal life in the community,&#8221; says Maria, an illegal immigrant living here, who plans to pick up her card when it&#8217;s available next week. She says illegal immigrants are targeted by muggers, who know they carry cash because they can&#8217;t get a bank account without an ID.<\/p>\n<p>But New Haven&#8217;s move has also prompted protests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0717\/p02s01-ussc.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut city begins issuing ID cards July 24 to undocumented immigrants, a first in the US. By Caitlin Carpenter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2007 At a time when a rising number of states and cities are cracking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}