Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons slammed New York officials for issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, including an Indian national caught with an ID that didn’t identify him.
Lyons was left outraged after the now-detained truck driver Anmol Anmol was driving across the US with a license that read “No Name Given” before being arrested in Oklahoma last month.
“It’s really scary,” Lyons told Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show” Saturday. “To see that on a driver’s license issued by the state, ‘No Name Given.” And the worst part, there’s a REAL ID star right up there in the corner.
“I don’t know about you all, but it was like going through a security clearance for me to get my REAL ID.”
Lyons was referring to the CDL license Anmol was found with after the illegal migrant was stopped for a routine inspection at an I-40 truck scale in Oklahoma.
The New York State issued ID only identified Anmol by his last name, with the first and middle name spaces filled in with the moniker “No Name Given.”
Anmol was arrested by federal agents after it was discovered he had crossed into the country illegally under the Biden administration in 2023, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.
Anmol was placed into removal proceedings after his arrest.
“I can’t believe we are giving illegal aliens, who have no right to be here, these driver’s licenses,” Lyons said. --->READ MORE HERE
New York issued a driver’s license to a migrant — but didn’t require a first name.
The revelation came as Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said a man caught up in a raid that ensnared 125 illegal immigrants in his state had a New York commercial driver’s license with “No Name Given” in the place of his first and middle monikers.
“If New York wants to hand out CDLs to illegal immigrants with ‘No Name Given,’ that’s on them. The moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws,” the Republican wrote in a social media post Monday, along with a picture of the license.
The New York Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed to The Post that the license, issued on April 14 and set to expire May 26, 2028, was real.
“This commercial driver’s license was issued in accordance with all proper procedures, including verification of the individual’s identity through federally issued documentation,” DMV spokesman Walter McLure said in a statement.
The spokesman said the individual in question had “lawful status” to be in the US “through a federal employment authorization and was issued a license consistent with federal guidelines.”
He did not specify which program and what “federal issued documentation” was provided to the DMV to verify the man’s identity.
“It is not uncommon for individuals from other countries to have only one name,” the statement added.
It wasn’t immediately known how many similar licenses have been issued. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
++++ Illegal migrant trucker with ‘No Name Given’ on NY driver’s license ID’d, arrested in Oklahoma ++++++
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