A resurfaced 2018 interview has revived scrutiny of Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan, after footage showed him arguing that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to obtain driver's licences. Fox News reported that El-Sayed described the current denial of licences to undocumented immigrants as a form of "discrimination" based on documentation status, a stance that critics are highlighting as evidence of his progressive positioning ahead of the Senate race.

The footage, dated 19 July 2018, comes from an interview with Detroit PBS in which El-Sayed made the case for extending licensing access regardless of immigration status. The report frames the clip as part of a broader pattern of scrutiny of El-Sayed's past statements and campaign conduct, noting it follows other recent stories questioning his record, and situates it within wider Republican-led criticism of Democratic immigration policies in Michigan and elsewhere.