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Texas will no longer issue or renew commercial driver’s licenses to DACA recipients, refugees or people with asylum, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced Monday.

Commercial driver’s licenses, or CDLs, are for driving vehicles for business purposes, such as trucks carrying products or buses transporting people. It also includes other vehicles like cement and garbage trucks and party vans.

Pending applications for CDLs will be terminated, according to DPS, which said the effort is “part of the department’s ongoing commitment to keeping Texas roads safe.”

The department also pointed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s direction earlier this month to "strictly enforce

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