Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Municipal ID program receives wide support among aldermen

ID's, which may be given to Yalies, would be a victory for illegal immigrants' rights

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Saturday, May 19, 2007

As a whirlwind of city illegal immigrants, city activists and Yalies descended on City Hall on Thursday, their rallying point — New Haven’s proposed municipal ID program, which has caught national attention in recent months — earned a key nod from a Board of Aldermen committee.

With nearly 300 attendees wearing yellow ribbons, supporters of the program said the event was historic in its implications, even though the question poised to the Finance Committee of whether it should apply for private funding to support the ID program proved relatively uncontroversial. No adamant critics...

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