[JAKE GOLDSTEIN-STREET]—Washington state mistakenly issued nearly 700 commercial licenses to drive trucks and buses to noncitizens who don’t qualify over the past seven years.

This issue has drawn heavy criticism from the Trump administration and others after a semitruck driver, Harjinder Singh, allegedly made an illegal U-turn and killed three people in Florida. Singh wrongfully received a standard commercial driver’s license from Washington state, the state Department of Licensing concluded.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has since threatened to withhold federal highway funding from states that issue these licenses to immigrants who don’t qualify. He has also tried to restrict who qualifies for commercial licenses, a move that is being litigated.

The growing attention led Wa

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