By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced a plan Friday to prevent illegal aliens from driving commercial trucks in the United States.
“The process for issuing [commercial drivers’ licenses] is absolutely 100% broken,” Duffy said at a press conference. “It has become a threat to public safety, and it is a national emergency that requires action right.
The announcement comes after an illegal alien truck driver killed three people in a Florida traffic crash while making an illegal U-turn. He apparently was not able to understand the street signs.
California had issued the commercial driver’s license.
“The combination of a catastrophic failure of states to follow the law and a broken system has created an imminent hazard to American travelers,” Duffy said. “Nowhere in the country have we found a more egregious licensing situation than in the state of California.”
The Department of Transportation has issued an emergency interim rule to prohibit noncitizens from being eligible for a non-domiciled commercial driver’s license unless they meet a stricter set of rules.
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