New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country
New York was the fourth state run by a Democratic governor called out publicly by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
In addition to finding licenses that remained valid longer than they should have, these federal audits have also discovered instances where the states may not have even checked a driver’s immigration status before issuing a license.
The rules of these licenses the Transportation Department is enforcing have been in place for years
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent letters to Texas, South Dakota, Colorado, and Washington during the government shutdown in October.
Duffy has said the high percentage of problems in some states, combined with the defensive responses from officials, suggests a systematic problem
“When more than half of the licenses reviewed were issued illegally, it isn’t just a mistake — it is a dereliction of duty by state leadership,” Duffy said about New York on Friday.
Since Duffy pressed the issue in California, the state has revoked some 21,000 commercial driver’s licenses that were issued improperly.
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