Foreign nationals get fake Texas IDs

03:19 PM CDT on Saturday, August 4, 2007
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Associated Press

DALLAS -- After about 400 foreign nationals—most of them Middle Eastern, half living illegally in the United States—took advantage of a loophole in Texas driver’s license requirements from 2003 to 2005, it took the Texas Department of Public Safety more than a year to cancel the licenses, a newspaper reports.

The agency says that because of questions as to whether the department had the right to invalidate the licenses and an e-mail miscommunication, it wasn’t until May of this year that the licenses were canceled. Since the abuse, DPS has changed its driver’s license requirements.

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