Brian Laird on WNYC. So what does the Trump anti-immigration campaign have to do with whether your kid in New York City or elsewhere can get to school?

It turns out they're related. In December, the Trump administration announced it was rolling out New York City or elsewhere can get to school. It turns out they're related. In December,

the Trump administration announced it was rolling out new commercial driver's license restrictions

in response to crashes involving what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called, quote,

foreign drivers. Now, the federal government is threatening to withhold highway

funds if states continue to issue commercial driver's licenses to non-citizen applicants,

and New York State, in response to that threat, is changing who can drive trucks and buses

to keep the federal funds coming.

Important to say two things here.

One, commercial drivers include school bus drivers,

and this doesn't just apply to people here illegally.

It's kicking legal immigrants out of those jobs, too.

And by the way, there's already a nationwide school bus driver shortage, as some of you

know. The order is being challenged in court here in New York, and you may have noticed that on

Tuesday, during the State of the Union address, President Trump urged Congress to enact

a version of this policy into law. Many of that most illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location.

That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah law, barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal alien.

So that version would just target people here illegally. The law's namesake is Delilah Coleman, who was five years old in June 2024, when a tractor trailer hit her family's stopped car. The truck was operated by an illegal alien,

as the president called him in the speech, who was deported back to his home country of India

in September, according to Yahoo News. Joining us now with her latest reporting is Jessica Gould,

education reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, as many of you know.

Hey, Jess, welcome back to the show.

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