Oakland to offer identification cards for illegal immigrants
The city's program will be modeled after a similar one in San Francisco, which started giving out cards to illegal immigrants earlier this year.
Council members said the cards will give illegal immigrants easier access to city and business services, improve their civic participation and encourage them to report crimes to police. City leaders also anticipate that the cards will prompt more illegal immigrants to open bank accounts rather than keeping their earnings in cash and becoming targets for robbers.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-idcard5-2009jun05,0,1333636.story