BOSTON — As a Maine police department dukes it out with the feds over the recent arrest of one of its own, backlash has reignited over a law that allows undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts to gain driver’s licenses.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has reiterated that the Registry of Motor Vehicles does not request information on or track immigration status for standard license applicants or holders.
Bay State Republican commentators argue the lax approach opened the door for Jamaican national Jon Luke Evans to gain a job with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department as a seasonal reserve officer in the coastal Maine resort town…