Some GOP states targeting driver's licenses issued to immigrants illegally in the US

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3. Later in the article is this

Connecticut has issued nearly 60,700 “drive-only” licenses to immigrants unable to prove lawful presence. Delaware has not responded to an Associated Press request for such data.

This suggests a scenario of an "after the fact" thing.

You may have some who had lawful work permits and got driver's licenses during that permit time, but then either the permit expired or was in the process of being renewed (either situation due to a tardy employer completing the paperwork and/or a backlog by the feds) when the driver's license needed to be renewed. So now the person is stuck in this "quasi" status where they still needed to work but didn't have a current work permit, and thus are given something similar to a "temporary permit" to drive (pending completion/verification of the paperwork). Once the documentation is in order, the license can be renewed as a normal one.

I.e., the characterization (or mischaracterization) of someone "being in the U.S. illegally" could easily mean not having current/unexpired paperwork. Of course with the gutting of the processors of that paperwork, this type of situation will explode exponentially.