NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to void a policy barring hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers from federal programs that help travelers speed through airport security lines and borders, calling the ban political punishment.
FILE PHOTO: The use of fingerprint reader on a new Global Entry Kiosk is demonstrated at Los Angeles International Airport September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
The administration’s action last week came in response to New York’s passage last June of a so-called Green Light law allowing illegal immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses and limiting federal immigration authorities from accessing records from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
State officials called the ban a “punitive measure intended to coerce New York into changing its policies,” violating the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and equal sovereignty among states and its prohibition on federal coercion.
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