Long Lines as Undocumented Immigrants in N.Y. Rush to Get Licenses

On the New York side of the Hudson River, lines outside some Department of Motor Vehicles offices stretched for blocks on Monday, as people sought to take advantage of a new state law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

The same day, the first that New York’s so-called Green Light Law went into effect, lawmakers in neighboring New Jersey approved similar legislation.