DOT Reveals California Has Issued 17,000 Trucking Licenses To Foreigners

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) revealed Wednesday that California has unlawfully issued tens of thousands of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to non-domiciled, foreign-born applicants — putting massive rigs in the hands of “dangerous foreign drivers,” according to Secretary Sean Duffy.

The DOT’s audit found that in California alone, “more than 25 % of the non-domiciled CDLs reviewed were improperly issued.” Secretary Duffy said the state had “issued tens of thousands of these licenses to non-citizens,” a loophole that officials claim has become a serious safety risk.

“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked,” said Duffy in a statement. “This is just the tip of [the] iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”

All holders of illegal CDLs from California have received notices that their licenses will expire in 60 days, according to the Transportation Department. Duffy’s department will also monitor and review California’s audit of its CDL system to “verify that every illegally issued license has been revoked and that the failures that allowed these licenses to be issued are corrected.”

Duffy moved to crack down on illegal commercial driver’s licenses after a deadly crash in Florida involving an Indian national who was in the U.S. illegally.

Florida responded to the crash last month by filing a lawsuit against California for illegally issuing Singh’s CDL.

“Here in Florida, we can do everything right, we can back the blue, we can enforce the law, we can combat illegal immigration, but we still suffer when Gavin Newsom and liberals on the West Coast allow these illegals in, encourage them, enable them to get these driver’s licenses and then they cross the country and ultimately take lives,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said at the time.