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Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows

  • Written by Margot Moinester, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis

When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, it affects nondrivers, too — even the littlest ones. Babies born to immigrants from Mexico and Central America are bigger and healthier in states that make that change, our research shows. The longer a law is in effect before a baby is conceived, the stronger the effect.

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