New York will lose nearly $74M over immigrant truck driver concerns

New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department says that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year.

The department said more than half of the New York licenses reviewed had significant problems, including remaining valid long after an immigrant was authorized to be in the country.

Records related to these non-domiciled CDLs have been reviewed in every state since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy put a spotlight on this issue after a deadly crash in Florida.

Most states have complied.

But California has lost $200 million.

Several other states, including Pennsylvania, Minnesota and North Carolina, are at risk of losing some funding.