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On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Milena Tayah, CCLP’s Policy Advocate, provided testimony to the Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee in opposition of Senate Bill 25-057, Noncitizen Voter Registration Cancellation. CCLP is in opposition of SB25-057.
Thank you Mr. Chair and members of the committee for the opportunity to speak to you today.
My name is Milena Tayah, LSW, and I am a Policy Advocate at the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every Coloradan, focusing on food, health, housing, and income. I am providing testimony in opposition of SB25-057.
Although this bill is focused on voter access and prevention methods, it interferes with previous Colorado legislation that allows and encourages undocumented immigrants to obtain driver licenses, which was passed in order to improve road and community safety. Passing this bill would discourage undocumented residents from obtaining an ID because it would put them at risk of detainment and deportation from immigration through the sharing of citizenship information between state departments. Research from the National Immigration Law Center has shown numerous instances of data sharing between state department of motor vehicles (DMVs) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in the deportation of undocumented people.[1]
The Department of Human Services uses DMV databases to locate specific individuals already as provides more current and reliable information. This bill simply reiterates this unnecessarily and adds additional access for immigration officers. ICE has already been known to use DMV records to draw certain people out for detainment and deportation. With the recent increase in ICE activity already, this kind of information give them a list of targets.
There is a high chance this bill could be used in deceptive ICE tactics, instilling further fear and confusion in our communities. This will lead to greater mistrust than is already present in undocumented communities for our state agencies. We ask for the committee to vote no on this bill.
Thank you for your time.
Milena Tayah, LSW
Policy Advocate
Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Update: SB25-057 was postponed indefinitely on February 2, 2025.
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[1] How ICE and State DMVs Share Information, National Immigration Law Center, March 16, 2016. Received by https://www.nilc.org/resources/ice-dmvs-share-information