On Wednesday, the administration announced that, for the time being, it would no longer allow residents of New York State to enroll (or re-enroll) in various Trusted Traveler Programs overseen by Customs and Border Protection, which allow preapproved individuals expedited passage through airport security and immigration. As a protective measure, the law also contains a provision that blocks federal immigration agents from retrieving information from the D.M.V.’s databases without a court order. It does not bar federal officials from demanding identification, photos, passport data and interviews from applicants for Global Entry and other security programs for travelers. This impediment to Mr. Trump’s deportation vision was too much for the administration to bear. Mr. Wolf’s security claims were met with skepticism, and some mockery, by the president’s critics.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2020 00:45 UTC