David O’Connor is a Navy veteran who labored as a industrial truck driver for a few years. He holds an ordinary driver’s license and a industrial driver’s license in New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and for the previous eight years he has held an ordinary driver’s license in Tennessee. However when he went to resume his driver’s license and procure a REAL ID, Tennessee Driver Providers officers not solely refused to difficulty a REAL ID but additionally canceled his present license, citing state legislation prohibiting the issuance of driver’s licenses to non-citizens. O’Connor was a U.S. citizen from start: his Navy discharge proved so, and he acquired Social Safety. The issue is that O’Connor was born in Canada, the place his dad and mom (each U.S. residents) had been quickly residing. When Driver Providers workers noticed his start certificates, they assumed he was Canadian and refused to imagine in any other case; their solely suggestion was that he apply for citizenship.
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