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Immigrants' Rights Activists Reconsidering Efforts For ID Cards

For more than two years, activists have waged a grass-roots fight to convince Phoenix leaders to create a city identification card available to all residents — including undocumented workers. The effort worked, resulting in the majority Democratic-leaning City Council to agree to create the card.

Now the same immigrant-rights activists who pushed for the card’s creation are reconsidering their efforts. They’re concerned the cards could end up being counterproductive, hurting the undocumented population it was meant to help.

For more on this, we’re joined by Dustin Gardiner, who covers City Hall for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.

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Lauren Gilger, host of KJZZ's The Show, is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized.