Database of undocumented New Yorkers could be deleted to oppose Trump

A database containing the identity of undocumented immigrants living in New York City would not be opened up to a Trump administration without a “real fight,” the city’s mayor said on Thursday. Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a news conference the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory, also left open the possibility that the

database, which holds personal information from the more than 850,000 New Yorkers who have a city municipal identification card, could be scrubbed. The IDNYC card was introduced in 2015 as a free and official proof of identification that could be obtained with limited documentation — making it accessible to the nearly half million city residents without legal immigration status. READ MORE