This week, public records revealed how ICE has scanned facial data from millions of driver's license photos. But the agency's collaboration with state DMVs might go deeper.
Thirteen other states and Washington, D.C., allow those in the country illegally to get licenses.
More states are including a gender option that isn't male or female on IDs. Advocates believe the changes might have mixed effects.
Nationally, traffic violations constitute the plurality of charges leading to ICE detention.
A bid by Republican legislators to identify residents' immigration status on state-issued identification would have marked them for discriminatory policing, activists say.