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Jorge Mendoza Yescas, the Mexican consul in Phoenix, displays his own consular ID card with the security features that made it acceptable as identification in Arizona.

Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill to let state, county and city officials once again accept identification cards issued by foreign consulates, as long as the issuing government takes fingerprints and does retina scans of each holder.

Consular IDs had been banned for a decade. They are often carried by undocumented people.

In a letter to the Arizona secretary of state, Ducey praised the bipartisan bill for making the public and law enforcement more safe.

He wrote that accepting the IDs does not come with new rights or responsibilities for noncitizens. It just means the state will take consular IDs from countries with strict biometric techniques.