Thousands of Asians living in this red state can't be happy, lots of Viet there

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3,000 Asians in Texas had their driver’s licenses sent to a criminal group. They want answers.
Through a state website, the group obtained the licenses with Asian names to sell to undocumented immigrants, predominantly from China, aiming to impersonate the victims.

Asian Americans in Texas are angered after officials revealed this week that thousands of Asians statewide may be impacted by identity theft orchestrated through a website that involved using personal information to answer security questions.

The state’s Department of Public Safety had unknowingly sent an estimated 3,000 driver's licenses to an organized crime group that targeted Asians in the state, DPS director Steve McCraw told a Texas House committee on Monday. The incident, which is currently under investigation, was discovered in December, McCraw said, and the department has begun to notify victims by mail this week.

With no warning about the incident for months, Asian Americans say they’re disappointed in the DPS's response and feel they’ve been kept in the dark. 

“It really goes to show that our state government does not see us and does not care about us and does not prioritize our welfare,” Lily Trieu, executive director of Asian Texans for Justice, told NBC News.