President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary has issued new regulations to remove almost 200,000 dangerous migrant truck drivers from the nation’s highways.
“The combination of a catastrophic failure of states to follow the law and a broken system has created an imminent hazard to American travelers,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday morning as he announced emergency rules to exclude dangerous foreign drivers and to penalize California’s pattern of “illegally” awarding licenses to foreign drivers.
The new rules are limited by threatened lawsuits from major trucking companies, warehouses, and retailers such as Amazon. For example, the roughly 190,000 foreign drivers will be able to operate until their licenses expire. This delay gives transport companies time to hire and train Americans, perhaps at decent wages.
The Duffy regulations are good news for American truckers who are facing wage-cutting competition from the many foreign drivers welcomed by President Joe Biden. For example, Biden’s deputies allowed many young Indian men to enter the country on B-1/B-2 tourist visas, knowing they were likely to get a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in Democrat-run, migrant-friendly licensing offices.
Earlier, Duffy reinstated enforcement of a regulation requiring drivers to understand English.
The new Duffy regulations are also a win for political advocates for American truckers. Those advocates have been influential because many truckers are expected to vote in the pending 2026 midterm election.
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