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Trump Admin Warns California: Stop Giving
Illegal Aliens Commercial Licenses Or
Lose Funding

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 9/27/2025 6:14:19 AM

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned California on Friday that his department would withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal highway funding from California if it continues issuing commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) to illegal aliens and other ineligible foreigners. Duffy's threat stems from an emergency rule the Department of Transportation rolled out imposing stricter rules on states regarding CDLs, prohibiting them from issuing the licenses to foreigners unless they hold employment-based visas and can pass a federal immigration status check. The rule came in response to an ongoing audit that revealed "a catastrophic pattern of states issuing licenses illegally to foreign drivers"—particularly in California—

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Reply 1 - Posted by: privateer 9/27/2025 6:59:35 AM (No. 2009601)
FTA: 'Duffy said the Transportation Department could even strip California's ability to issue CDLs, though he added that "we don't want to do that." ' I'll translate: our lukewarm response stops short of being actually effective. Newscum will laugh at the funding penalty, knowing some tyrannical judge will nullify it. This time the Klan wears black robes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: anniebc 9/27/2025 7:05:01 AM (No. 2009603)
I think we're well past warning. I heard Duffy suggest how illegals could get licenses with more stringent measures. What!?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: voxpopuli 9/27/2025 7:31:29 AM (No. 2009624)
Don't forget Walzland with all their Somali truck drivers
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 9/27/2025 7:55:41 AM (No. 2009635)
Cancel all California CDLs and make them retest and pass ALL qualification requirements. Start confiscating trucks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 9/27/2025 8:32:54 AM (No. 2009663)
As just a citizen I have to ask why trucking companies hire these foreign drivers. Do they pay them less than American drivers? Do the companies insuring these companies charge them more for hiring incompetent drivers? It appears that the only solution is to stop these people at the weigh stations and if they are not able to speak English and read English they are take off the road and the truck sits at the weigh stations until a real driver comes to get it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: skacmar 9/27/2025 8:53:07 AM (No. 2009675)
In the Democrat's spirit of resisting everything Trump requests, California will now immediately start issuing not just CDLs to every illegal, but they will now issue regular drivers licenses to every illegal of driving age no questions asked.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 9/27/2025 9:05:47 AM (No. 2009687)
Don't warn, just do it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mc squared 9/27/2025 9:32:28 AM (No. 2009704)
More vigorous checks at weigh stations, including ICE. Surprise checks at truck stops. Should be like shooting fish there.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/27/2025 10:14:15 AM (No. 2009718)
Re #5. I suspect that they do pay them less or game the system some other way to save money. Maybe claim that they are independent contractors so the state doesn't require that the trucking company carry expensive workers compensation coverage, falsify the logbooks so the drivers can work long, illegal hours. We need e-verify strictly enforced and make the penalty $1,000 per day or more for every day an illegal is caught working for your trucking company. The roads and the giant (probably overweight) trucks are dangerous enough without unskilled, non-English speaking illegals putting us and our families in mortal danger every time we get on the road.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: paral04 9/27/2025 10:41:58 AM (No. 2009728)
Good. The Federal Government has some jurisdiction over the Interstates so it should stand. Anyway, what idiot would want a person driving on our highways that can't read the signs?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: m1n0uche19 9/27/2025 10:51:15 AM (No. 2009733)
The only accident I was ever in was when an illegal alien, unlicensed,uninsured, drunk in a stolen truck T-boned my car after going through a red light. This was in Van Nuys CA in 1986, we have had this problem for at least 50 years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 9/27/2025 11:19:00 AM (No. 2009739)
How about every driver who comes to a weigh station with a CDL issued in California gets shut down, the truck cannot drive away because the CDL is deemed invalid? That would get their damned attention.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Kate318 9/27/2025 11:31:44 AM (No. 2009741)
Stop threatening and do. I’m so tired of dancing with these people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/27/2025 12:21:16 PM (No. 2009776)
Warnings are useless, Slap them with massive Funding Loss Immediately!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 9/27/2025 12:36:20 PM (No. 2009786)
Re #11. In the late 1980s, I had a former college roommate who lived in San Diego...he still does. He had a cool old Volvo 122 statoin wagon, a very rare car in the USA, and perfectly suited to his lifestyle because they could camp in and from it, and it had moderate fuel use for it's size and was simple to work on, very durable. He was planning on keeping it "forever"....which is possible in low rust SoCal. One night a drunken illegal crashed his $50 junk pickup into my friend's parked Volvo, destroying it. Of course the illegal was not hurt, was arrested and let go on bail. I happened to be in San Diego and went with my friend to the court house when the case came up. They called up "Jaime Garcia" and, surprise, he wasn't there, so they put out a bench warrant. My friend and I went to the clerk of the court to see what info they had on this character, perhaps to try to get some money paid for the damaged car. The clerk took the name "Jaime Garcia" and then came back with a 1/4" thick stack of that old wide, hole punced edge, green and white lined IBM printer paper.....and she said "There are 38 Jaime Garcia's in the system with bench warrants at this time, I can't tell which one is your guy....here's what we have. So.....I told my friend that he missed his chance to get retribution for the destroyed, irreplaceable car when he failed to beat Jaime Garcia to a pulp with a ball bat at the scene before the cops arrived. He never got a penny because, even in the 1980s.....ILLEGALS WERE NOT SUBJECTED TO US LAWS in any real sense. They broke ALL the laws, and nothing every happened to them, especially in California. I learned to despise illegals 40+ years ago, and everything I have learned since makes me want them ALL GONE, even more. Nothing good about them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: danu 9/27/2025 6:39:40 PM (No. 2009870)
-5- we nearly got deded 2x by unlicenced untrained illegal aliens posing as 'commercial drivers' on ca. roads. additionally, they're not allowed to stop for any sort of breaks. they simply cut holes in the floor of the vehicle, to use the freeway as a public toilet.
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