Immigrants urge Kalamazoo City Commission to ease restrictions on undocumented aliens – Michigan

More than 50 people, many of them Hispanic, lined the walls of the Kalamazoo City Commission chambers Monday as a coalition of social action groups urged the city to support more rights for undocumented aliens.

Advocates claimed denying driver’s licenses to people in the United States without immigration papers prompts them to drive illegally and risk deportation if stopped by police.

Speakers also said the Kalamazoo County Clerk’s office is denying marriage licenses to people who lack official immigration documentation. That undercuts the strength of families, according to Monsignor Michael Hazard, pastor of Kalamazoo’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, who said a couple with a young child has been unable to marry here.”*

*From: www.mlive.com
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