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Border Patrol agents stopped a commercial truck at a checkpoint in the country near Blythe, California, where they found the driver – a 25-year-old Indian national in the US illegally.
“Blythe station agents arrested a commercial truck driver at a field sobriety test after obtaining an illegal US license permit.
The arrests come amid a court battle over the Department of Transportation’s restrictions on illegal immigrants getting driver’s licenses.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blasted a court ruling Monday that denied the Trump Administration’s request to bar illegal immigrants from obtaining CDLs.
Duffy vows ‘we won’t take this lying down’ after court blocks illegal immigrant CDL restrictions
“We’re not going to take this lying down,” Duffy said on “The Ingraham Angle.” “We will do everything we can to protect the American people.”
His comments came after a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled last Thursday that the Department of Tourism’s restrictions were not found.
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Harjender Singh, the commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-Turn that killed three people on the Florida Turnpike, appeared in court on November 13. (St. Lucie Courthouse, Florida)
Such restrictions were announced in September, after illegal truck driver Harjindery Singh was accused of causing a tractor-trailer accident that killed three people in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The judges said the Federal Government failed to follow due process or explain how the law would improve safety. The court also noted that the safety management data of the Federal Carrier Carriers shows that about 5% of all driver’s licenses are illegal, although they account for 0.2% of crashes.
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Transport Secretary Sean Duffy released the English version of the rules for commercial lorry drivers on Tuesday. (AP Photo / Manuel Bilce CENETA)
Duffy pointed out that he has been largely blamed for the administration of the bid, which he says has allowed millions of illegal immigrants to come in, provide authorization and then allow them to seek CDLs.
“People are dying,” she said.
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“And we thought it was necessary to protect the American people and we should have an emergency regime, not to go through a month-long process. We did that. We’ve been really digging into this, we want to see more data. ‘ And I’m like … ‘Watch any show on television, and you’ll see the danger to the American people.’ “
FOX News’ Alexandra Koch and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
