Blue states and Trump: Global Entry order takes aim at New York
President Donald Trump painted a bleak view of American cities defying his immigration authority in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
The next day, his acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf announced on Fox News that New Yorkers, specifically, would no longer be able to apply for or renew their membership in certain verified traveler programs -- the ones that people pay the government for to speed their way through airport security lines.
The reason, Wolf said on Fox News, was that New York's so-called Green Light law -- which makes the undocumented eligible for drivers licenses and also shields some DMV data from the federal government -- created a security risk. Without the data, he wrote in a warning letter to New York officials, DHS would be unable to process applications for Global Entry and other preferred traveler programs.
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This is either a serious coincidence or the beginning of a new election year push to further split the country over the issue of immigration. It's also his latest broadside against Democratic-leaning states and territories, which he routinely dismisses or targets with punitive policies.
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