For instance, in 2013, then-governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, a Democrat from the pro-commonwealth status party in Puerto Rico, approved Law 97, which allowed for people without official immigration status to obtain a driver’s license. “That’s one of the achievements we’ve had, and close to 20,000 people have that license — before New York and a lot of other states,” Rodríguez said. However, in the last year, González, a Republican and Trump ally from the island’s pro-statehood party, and her government has used it to betray the entire undocumented population in Puerto Rico.