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On Monday, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s state panel on immigrant policy revealed a decidedly progressive set of recommendations.

For example, Corzine supports undocumented students being able to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges much like the DREAM Act.

Corzine said most of New Jersey’s immigrants are in the state legally, and that the children of the state’s estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants; “are not here because they chose to be, but because of their families, and they should not be discriminated against.”

Corzine wants to reexamine the immigration directive from the New Jersey’s Attorney General ordering police to notify immigration authorities when they arrest someone suspected of being an illegal immigrant and backs a moratorium on federal immigration raids in the state.

Howevere, Corzine is against is undocumented immigrants having driver’s licenses, which the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy came out in support of.

More than 20 percent of the Garden State’s population is made up of immigrants, the fifth highest immigrant population in the nation.

Via / Newsday