ALBANY — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to challenge New York’s Green Light Law, which has allowed thousands of nonresident immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses while blocking federal immigration and border enforcement agencies from accessing the state’s motor vehicle database.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Albany as President Donald J. Trump’s administration is seeking to undo many of the immigration policies of former President Joe Biden, whose administration saw record numbers of illegal border crossings that sparked an immigration crisis.
The civil complaint seeks a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction barring New York officials from enforcing the state law. The lawsuit names Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Attorney General Letitia James and state Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Mark J.F. Schroeder as defendants…