Duffy has made it a priority to scrutinize how the licenses are issued since August, when a tractor-trailer driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people<\/a>. That incident thrust the issue into the public\u2019s consciousness.<\/p>\n In a statement Thursday, DOT spokesperson Danna Almeida said all states were being reviewed.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear how many people would be affected in Pennsylvania. In any case, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro<\/a> \u2018s administration said the federal government didn\u2019t identify a single commercial driver\u2019s license issued to someone who wasn\u2019t eligible. <\/p>\n Still, a letter Thursday from the Republican administration to Shapiro cited an audit that found two out of 150 people whose licenses exceeded their lawful presence in the country. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel.<\/p>\n In four cases it had reviewed, the federal government said Pennsylvania provided no evidence that it had required noncitizens to provide legitimate proof that they were legally in the country at the time they got the license.<\/p>\n The Trump administration called on Pennsylvania to stop issuing new, renewed and transferred commercial driver\u2019s licenses and permits, as well as conduct an audit to identify those licenses whose expirations exceed the driver\u2019s lawful stay in the U.S. <\/p>\n It is also asking the state to void noncompliant licenses and remove those drivers from the road. The administration said approximately 12,400 noncitizen drivers hold an unexpired commercial learner\u2019s permit or commercial driver\u2019s license issued by Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n The governors of California and Pennsylvania \u2014 Gavin Newsom<\/a> and Shapiro \u2014 are tough critics of Trump, and both have been repeated targets of Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n Shapiro\u2019s administration said the state transportation department ceased issuing commercial driver\u2019s licenses to noncitizens after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published a regulation in late September that would severely limit which immigrants can get one.<\/p>\n
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