As seen in the New Haven Independent:
[A]t a late Friday press conference, as City Hall remained filled with ID-seekers, Mayor John DeStefano announced the the first-floor office processing the cards will stay open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays for the indefinite future. The number of applications taken by the office passed 1,150 since it opened Tuesday.[...]
At 9:15 a.m., the line already snaked from City Hall to Elm Street, forcing the city to stop accepting more applicants and turn the rest away, said city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga. The day was a repeat of Thursday, when immigrants waited eight hours in line.
A couple of banks in the area have announced that the New Haven ID cards will be sufficient proof of identity to open accounts at their institutions.
Meanwhile, all the interest in undocumented folks getting any form of ID card is reminding me of a Heinlein quote:
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
I can understand the interest in wanting folks to be able to prove, or at least consistently document, who they are, given the way the world is these days, but I think it is kind of sad that it’s not sufficient to just take folks at their word, and that the fine art of the use of pseudonyms is fading away.