The state attorney general's office said today that the state Division of Motor Vehicles should resume issuing driver's licenses to young illegal immigrants who are participating in the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which defers deportation for some young adults who arrived in the United States as children. (See Anne Blythe's story.)
The announcement came in a 3-page letter (see copy attached below) from Grayson Kelley, chief deputy attorney general, to Eric Boyette, the acting DMV commissioner, four months after former DMV Commissioner Mike Robertson said DMV would stop issuing licenses to DACA participants, pending a legal opinion from the attorney general (see 1/15/13 story with reader comments and earlier blog post for background and Robertson's Sept. 10 letter).
