Project description: Moving U.S. forward is a research effort to study the implications of SB-251 driver’s licenses (for immigrants who cannot prove lawful presence or can only prove temporary lawful presence). We studied macro-level effects in different aspects of public health and safety. As well as individual testimonies of SB-251 license recipients and activists. Since Colorado started implementing this program in 2014, it has become a model for other states that are following suit.
Project authors: Francisco Cabral, Priscilla Cabral, Ally Brassette, Alyson Edelstein, Savannah Wadstrom, Jennifer Anclien and Erika Maldonado
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Data sources:
- United States Census Bureau
- Colorado Health Institute surveys
- Google search data
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data
- American Property Casualty Insurance Association #HeadsUp “Vehicle accidents on the rise in Colorado“
- The Stanford Open Policing Project findings
- https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF (data unavailable)
- Colorado Independent article “Colorado’s backlogged immigrant driver’s license program faces further cuts. Two Republican lawmakers want to prevent that.“
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America research article “Providing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California improves traffic safety“
- Colorado Fiscal Institute document “The Impact of Allowing All Immigrants Access to Driver’s Licenses“
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