The recent arrest of an alleged Uzbek terrorist who obtained a Pennsylvania commercial driver’s license this summer has stirred calls for investigations by Republican lawmakers and pushback from the Shapiro administration aimed at potential flaws in a federal database.

The dustup comes as the Trump administration targets immigrant truck drivers — and several Democratic-led states — as part of its ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts and after deadly crashes in California and Florida. It also comes as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s push to restrict immigrants from obtaining CDLs remains in court, and as the administration pressed Pennsylvania to revoke scores of licenses or face federal funding losses.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week announced that Immigra

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