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Undocumented Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses in 2015
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Despite the warnings of politicians and health care professionals, many have failed to treat the pandemic as a serious threat: the spring breakers on beaches, the crowds in city parks. Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning expert on human behavior, speaks with Maria Konnikova about why the threat posed by COVID-19 defies intuitive comprehension. Plus: Jon Lee Anderson reports from Brazil, where Jair Bolsonaro’s government is pushing to allow commercial mining in the Amazon, despite the harm that it will cause to indigenous groups who live there. And Jelani Cobb speaks with DJ D-Nice about his Instagram Live party, Club Quarantine, which attracted hundreds of thousands of socially distanced attendees.see more
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Undocumented Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses in 2015

Mina Kim
at 9:30 AM
 (Marcus Teply/KQED)

A projected 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in California are expected to apply for new driver's licenses under a new law coming into effect Jan. 2. Advocates say this will make the roads safer, while critics say it provides a new incentive for immigrants to enter the country illegally. The Department of Motor Vehicles has been gearing up for the influx of new applicants.

Guests:

Reshma Shamasunder, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center

Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform

Jessica Gonzalez, spokesperson for the Department of Motor Vehicles

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