Some GOP states are targeting the license of the driver issued to illegal migrants in the US

Washington: As drivers on American highways cross from one state to another, they often congratulate by a large “reception ….”. But not all drivers are welcome in every state.
In Florida, a special out-of-set driver licensed motorists issued to those in the US are not welcome to illegally drive. The Governor of Vyoming imposed a comparable ban this year. And the Governor of Tennessee said that he would sign the same law sent to his desk recently.
The message, although not literally printed on the metal, is clear: “Sign says,” welcome to Tennessee, not welcome to illegal immigrants, “Tennessy House’s majority leader William Lambert declared during the debate.
As President Donald Trump cracks on illegal immigration, in many states Republican MPs are advancing new laws that targets people with a lack of legal status to live in the US. 19 other states and Washington, contrast to policies in DC, which issue the driver’s license, even if the residents may prove to be their legal presence.
The Department of Justice is trying to attack such a law in New York, which molds its driver’s license data from the federal immigration officers.
State driver’s license takes separate roads
States are taking quite different approaches for licensing drivers, even the federal government tries to standardize the process.
On 7 May, the US will begin to enforce a law passed 20 years ago, determining the national standards for the license of the state driver that is accepted as evidence of identity for adults entering some federal features or traveling on domestic commercial flights. Licenses are marked with a star in line with the Real ID Act and require applicants to provide a social security number and evidence of American citizenship or legal residence.
But the states remain free to issue the license of the driver for the residents who do not provide documentation for a real ID, so they meet other state requirements such as passing the vision examination or driving law testing. In most states that illegally issue licenses to people in the US, it is not known by looking at the license at present whether the person is present illegally or simply not to apply for a real ID.
But at least some states make a difference. Connecticuts and delaware illegally release special marks on the license of the driver issued to the immigrants in the US.
Florida limits licenses from some states
In 2023, Florida became the first state to invalve the license of some other states. A law signed by Republican village. Ron Desantis punished a fine for driving in Florida and a rape by a potential prison time, in which a type of license “was specially issued to the unwarded immigrants” or telling the driver, the driver did not give proof of the legal presence.
As applied, the law has a limited scope. According to the website of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor vehicles, only a specially marked license from connecticuts and delaware is considered invalid.
Connecticut has issued around 60,700 “drive-only” licenses to migrants unable to prove a valid presence. Delaware has not responded to an associated press request for such data.
Boli, Democratic Connecticut village to avoid florida ban. Ned Lamont last year proposed to illegally abolish the special license designation for immigrants in the US and instead he has given them the same type of license as other people are not receiving a real ID. But the law never voted.
Alabama proposes an unwanted signal.
Apart from Vyoming and Tennessi, at least one half a dozen other Republican-led states have considered the law this year to consider the law so that such laws were passed in Alabama, Montana and New Hampshire to invite some types of out-of-set driver licenses to illegal immigrants and proposed at least one room in North Dakota, Oklahma and South Carrolina. Went.
“We want to discourage illegal migrants from coming or living in Alabama,” the sponsor of the Alabama Bill said that the house is awaited. If anyone illegally drives in Alabama in America, “they should roam around and go elsewhere.”
Disappointed about the law, Democratic Alabama State Sen Linda Coleman-Madison added an amendment that requires highway reception to include a notice about the license of the prohibited driver.
“We have people who come here for a lot of programs – tourists, holidays, what you can have to be caught in. So we need to tell people this,” he told AP. “I think some of our laws are mean, and sometimes I think we just have to call it as if it is.”
Symbolism and substance balance
The targeting law of the driver is part of the “tendency of states involved in federal immigration enforcement issues”, “said a immigration lawyer Cathleen Campbell Walker in Texas’s L Paso.
It is not clear that laws carry too much substance. Some Florida advocates said that they are unaware of specific examples where the driver’s license ban has been implemented.
But “this is a matter of concern,” Jenny Economos of the Farm workers Association of Florida said, “Because some people who are unspecified have gone especially to other states, where the driver’s license is legal to obtain the license to take here.”
California is one of the states where immigrants in the US may get the driver’s license. Trump’s immigration policies have created “anxiety and fear”, “an attorney of Los Angeles, which helps immigrants to achieve legal status.
“Even those who may have a California driver’s license are afraid to go anywhere,” Perkins said.