Experts reveal how illegal immigrant truck drivers may obtain commercial licenses

Questions about how illegal immigrants killed three illegal immigrants in a Florida truck crash to obtain their commercial driver’s license.

Harjinder Singh is Fort Pierce crashOfficials said he failed the English and road test.

Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally, obtained a full commercial driver’s license in Washington in July 2023, despite being illegally permitted and obtained a limited commercial driver’s license in California in 2024, and the Department of Transportation is still investigating if it complies with federal regulations.

Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Border Security and Immigration, explains how this might have happened.

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“Just like states issue driver’s licenses, they also issue commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs). Unless they are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents (green card holders), CDLs should not be issued to someone.

She continued: “Note that the Trump administration denied Harjinder Singh’s work authorization application, but the Biden administration later approved his request. This is enough to exploit this CDL vulnerability in a willing state.”

Ries also made some suggestions, including actions that could be taken at the federal level to prevent further tragedies.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested the name and name and hearing time and place in the Federal Plaza court building in New York on June 27, 2025. ((Bryan R. Smith (Bryan R.

“First, the federal government should close the vulnerability under its interstate business terms and federal immigration agencies. Second, the DHS should not issue a work authorization unless it is granted in a basic immigration welfare application such as a shelter, not just archives, not just archives. Too many fraudulent immigrants benefit from the scope created, thus benefiting the business from the authorization, thus benefiting the business from the authorization, thus allowing the business to be authorized to be granted. To obtain the business. To obtain the business’s authorization. Backlog,” Ries added.

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Several states, e.g. California Minnesota, it does allow people in the country to drive illegally in some cases, but it is usually much harder to get a commercial license.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office and the Department of Homeland Security debate on work permit issues earlier this week on X.

“Why don’t you ask Trump about the work permit issued by the drivers federally and when he entered the country?” A Newsom spokesman said in a statement. “Spoiler alert: That’s under Trump’s leadership – Oops. He qualifies in any state. California complies with federal law and the president knows nothing about it.”

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Tractor trailer at the entrance to the Baltimore Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. (Nathan Howard)

The statement continued: “In fact, in this case, the driver reissued the employment authorization (work permit) on 4/9/2025, and if my math is correct, it belongs to the current presidency.”

She wrote on Monday X: “Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issued a commercial driver’s license for illegal aliens.

also, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin Newsom’s press office held a talk on X on Monday about the schedule.

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“Hey, Genius: The federal government (Trump Administrator) has confirmed that this person meets federal and state immigration requirements – you issued him a work permit (EAD). As usual, the Trump administration is either lying or ignoring. [grok]Who was the president of 2018?

McLaughlin replied: “Error. Harjinder Singh was illegal in the United States and his work authorization was rejected on September 14, 2020 in the Trump administration.” McLaughlin replied: “Later, it was approved by the Biden administration, June 9, 2021. California issued a commercial driver’s license. There is no national CDL.”

Fox News Digital contacts the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Attorney General’s Office.

Louis Casiano and Peter D’Abrosca of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.