Republican Lawsuit Forces NYC’s Hand on Identifications for Undocumented Immigrants
Staten Island Republicans convinced a state Apellate Division court to uphold an an injunction against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to dump the personal files of applicants to the city’s municipal identification program, files believed to include the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants—prompting the administration to announce it would no longer hold on to any personal records of IDNYC participants at all. Earlier this week, Assemblyman Ron Castorina …