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Immigrants must now prove they are in the United States legally to obtain new driver’s licenses and identification cards, which will indicate their status, under new Texas Department of Public Safety rules. Because driver’s licenses can be used to gain access to bank accounts, board airplanes and enter various government buildings, the new rules are…

An Austin woman and two others claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Travis County that new Department of Public Safety driver’s license requirements for noncitizens discriminate against them, even though they are legally in the United States. The women, who are represented by the Texas Civil Rights Project are identified in the state District…