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IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS?: An investigation into potential immigration benefits fraud has Vermont’s transportation agency caught between enforcing state law and “respecting immigrants’ rights.”
[From article]
This month, investigators at the Agency of Transportation Department of Motor Vehicles revealed that 130 applications at the Bennington DMV office were filled out using false address information. When the applicants arrived in person to take their driver’s tests, investigators learned many of the migrants were from out of state. Some applicants said they paid $2,000 in New York City for help obtaining the cards.
In collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials at the Agency of Transportation are now looking into potential cases of document and benefits fraud.
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a vehicle pulled in needing new wiper blades. It was out-of-state plates, I believe he said New York. The owner asked the well-dressed man driving what brought him up this way, and he said he had a carload of individuals going to the Newport office for driver’s licenses.”
http://watchdog.org/194789/migrant-rights-vermont-dmv/
‘Migrant rights’ advocate urges Vermont DMV not to investigate illegals
By Bruce Parker
January 23, 2015
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