AMY TAXIN, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit over concerns that federal immigration agents could use state driver’s license databases to track down people for deportation.

The National Immigration Law Center sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court in on Wednesday demanding records detailing how federal immigration agents access and use driver’s license data.

The lawsuit comes after immigrant advocates in Maryland received reports that immigration agents arrested several people with prior deportation orders after apparently identifying them with help from driver’s license and vehicle information.

It also comes two weeks before California starts issuing driver’s licenses to immigrants living in the country illegally.

A message was left for the Department of Homeland Security seeking comment.