Texas stops issuing commercial driver’s licenses to refugees, asylum seekers and DACA recipients

The announcement came after the Trump administration last week issued new rules to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses, and threatened to withhold federal funding from states that did not comply.

DPS said it would immediately suspend issuance of the licenses to non-citizens who are refugees, asylees or covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects from deportation children brought to the country without authorization.