High court says NY can deny licenses to illegal immigrants

Carolyn Hileman* | June 8, 2007

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York has the right to deny driver’s licenses to immigrants who can’t prove they are in the country legally, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. A lawsuit brought by immigrants and their advocates claimed a state Department of Motor Vehicles policy created by the Pataki administration “is essentially an effort to deny driver’s licenses to immigrants not legally present in New York,” the Court of Appeals decision stated. “To state the obvious, undocumented aliens lack documents,” wrote Judge Robert Smith in the 5-2 decision, “And the DMV’s right to insist on such documents is undisputed.”

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