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New Yorkers Can’t Be
‘Trusted Travelers’ Due
To ‘Green Light’ Law
Ban Complicates Crossing Borders For Many
WASHINGTON – New York residents will be cut off from “trusted traveler” programs that enable people to quickly return from outside the country because of the state’s new “Green Light” law that prevents immigration officials from accessing motor-vehicle records, ABC News and other outlets are reporting today.
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers whose applications for the programs are pending or will have to renew their enrollment by the end of the year will have to undergo customs and passport checks as they enter the country as a result of the action, said Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
“These are all unfortunate consequences of New York’s ‘Green Light’ law,” Cuccinelli said in a conference call with reporters. “Obviously we would urge New York to undo that law and restore some sanity to its own attempts to help preserve public safety.”
usual BS from Trump…search your soul, do you want to live your life with an open or closed heart…you decide!
This is federal authoritarian nonsense. The Global Entry system is not dependent on state driver’s licenses – the feds have never relied on local driver’s licenses for proof of identification at the border – nor do foreign countries- unless you are applying for a temporary driver’s permit when renting a car overseas. This, is, in the President’s own words, bullshit
It’ll be inconvenient, but, necessary. Privileges outside a state are based on the next state’s law. When a person from one state ignores the laws of another state, that person is subjected to the laws of the state he is in, not the state he is from. Same for International travel. Inconvenient, but legal.
Ken Cuccinelli is and always has been an ardent supporter of Donald Trump who is doing this in retaliation for a just and humane treatment of undocumented individuals. The NYS law was passed after serious deliberations and investigations that all debunk the Republican nonsense about safety on the highways. Here in Otsego County, we have had to put up with the Republican County Clerk’s racist shenanigans vis-a-vis the implementation of the law, and now Cuccinelli is having his go at it. Keep the law as it is and change some of these Republican politicians.
This is absolutely, entirely because of Cuomo’s Green Light Law. Don’t blame this on Trump. You can all thank your Emperor Cuomo for this.
It’s not Trump’s fault. It’s Coumo’s fault. So you want to hide illegal law breakers from the Feds
Oh come on Amanda and Don. This is a nasty Trump reaction to a law that flies in the faces of his racist agenda. There’s nothing wrong with the Green Light Law, except that xenophobic Republican Trump supporters don’t like it. And yes. You bet I want to hide the people who are protected by the law from the Feds.