Progressives Vowed Driver’s Licenses for the Undocumented. Then the Suburbs Spoke Up.

The New York Times: In the 12 years since fierce backlash forced Gov. Eliot Spitzer to abandon a proposal to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, New York has fashioned much of its political identity around a commitment to immigrant issues.

That resolve has become especially apparent during President Trump’s tenure, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a new Democratic majority in the State Legislature have pardoned undocumented immigrants, granted them access to college scholarships and limited deportable offenses, in an effort to cast the state as Washington’s opposite.

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