Driving While Illegal: 900,000 have licenses, could grow to millions

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A quarter of the nation’s 50 states are or will soon be offering illegal immigrants a license to drive and because most are urban states an estimated 37 percent of the illegal population live in areas where the license is available, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.

In a new report and during a Thursday conference, Pew said that 10 states, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.

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