MIDDLETOWN -A city in Orange County is taking steps towards offering municipal identification cards.

Middletown's Common Council agreed to pass an identification card program Wednesday, making them the third in the state after New York City and Poughkeepsie to offer municipal I.D. cards.

For the past year, immigrants in Middletown say they have been fighting for the I.D. card program. They say the program will provide identification to undocumented residents and others without I.D.

Ignacio Avecedo works for Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, the grassroots organization that helped members push for the I.D. programs in Poughkeepsie, Middletown and Kingston.

"For them to be heard, for them to come up and speak for themselves, it was a big win," says Avecedo.

Read the entire story featuring grantee Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson.