This whole thing baffles me as well. What will these people show as proof of who they are???
What's to stop Joe criminal, citizen or not, from saying he's an illegal and getting a shiny new identity? Scary.
The only thing that makes sense is that they, the government, want the fees these people will have to pay to obtain the liscences. None of them pay income tax, that kind of bothers me, but this liscence thing isn't the answer. I think lowering income tax and raising the sales tax a bit would be a better way to have illegals pay their share.
just my opinion.