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What to know about the fight over whether New York should lose $74M for not revoking immigrant CDLs
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What to know about the fight over whether New York should lose $74M for not revoking immigrant CDLs

The Independent·Josh Funk·about 1 month ago
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New York filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge the federal Transportation Department's decision to withhold nearly $74 million in highway money because the state refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year. New York joins California in suing over Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's efforts to tighten up the rules for which immigrants can qualify to get a commercial driver's license and make sure the states are properly enforcing the existing rules. The federal government didn't immediately respond to the new lawsuit, but officials have been clear about the problems they found with more than half of the 200 licenses they reviewed. Officials said they found significant flaws such as licenses remaining valid long after an immigrant was authorized to be in the country.…

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