Two national public employee unions sue
Trump over immigrant drivers license crackdown
The Center Square,
by
Andrew Rice
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
10/24/2025 8:33:40 AM
Two national public employee unions sued the Trump administration over its restrictions preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial drivers licenses. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a petition for review against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The employee unions challenged a rule implemented by Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy restricting foreign individuals from receiving commercial drivers licenses. Commercial drivers licenses are used for operating large vehicles such as tractor-trailers and buses. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow unauthorized immigrants to receive commercial drivers licenses.
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The employee unions argue that loss of commercial drivers' licenses for immigrants will cause businesses and livelihoods to suffer.
“Drivers who take our children to school, deliver food and medicine, and clean trash off the streets must have these commercial driver's licenses, and denying them inflicts unnecessary pain on everyone their lives touch,” said Lee Saunders, AFSCME president.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Alecto2 10/24/2025 8:40:32 AM (No. 2020858)
Unions trying to get their retaliation in first. What could they be scared of? Time to investigate.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 10/24/2025 8:44:09 AM (No. 2020860)
Nice. Goobernment employee unions that have nothing to do with trucking are suing The US goobernment. As if they have standing. Oh wait, they will file in a district loaded with Clinton, Obambi and Diaper Joe Inferior Court Black Robed Activist where and DeMS-13 group has standing against Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 10/24/2025 8:45:31 AM (No. 2020861)
Maybe they'll change their minds if one of those drivers kills someone in their family....they shouldn't be on the road if they don't have the training or the credentials...Unions are stupid...I was never so glad as when I got promoted and could leave...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 10/24/2025 8:57:16 AM (No. 2020872)
Omg, no one to pick our fields or drive our trucks from the fields. What are we going to do with all the unemployed welfare frauds? Inquiring minds want to know. Nice to know how much value you place on migrants. Paid chattel is how you see them. Bah humbug
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mobyclik 10/24/2025 9:00:59 AM (No. 2020875)
Libs trolling for more voters...legal ones or not.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/24/2025 9:16:30 AM (No. 2020884)
Glad I was never in a union. I'd have hated to know that I had to pay dues so my grifting bosses could play politics with my money!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kdog 10/24/2025 9:38:01 AM (No. 2020895)
This counts as one of the many instances where the advertisement "For they-them, NOT for YOU" is just a totally appropriate synopsis of all things Democrat.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/24/2025 9:41:20 AM (No. 2020896)
And here I thought I had seen it all.... ! After the horrible crashes we've seen lately, didn't it sink in that Foreign Drivers, who could not speak our language, nor READ signs of the Road, should not be given a Driver License? People were killed and the Drivers were responsible for that. And maybe we should also some of the blame on the people who gave the Truck Drivers a license! I think Sean Duffy is right to shut down allowing this to happen. Let the drivers go back to their own Country. Enough is enough!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
readtheBook 10/24/2025 9:49:07 AM (No. 2020899)
If a law [a court] can give the lawless (illegal alien) the same right as the lawful (citizen) it therefore demonstrates the law is actually not a law (principle of truth) but merely a term that means power.
Sticky mess. I remember a famous communist (Stalin?) saying something like, "Power is what comes from the barrel of a gun."
I also remember a (true) saying that the difference between our country (America) and a third world country is that we function as a society of law.
The true bedrock of law is the LAWGIVER if you know what I mean.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Miamiwarrior 10/24/2025 9:49:49 AM (No. 2020900)
Trump should get rid of public unions
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 10/24/2025 9:54:49 AM (No. 2020902)
If I recall correctly, JFK issued an Executive Order allowing federal employees to unionize. Trump needs to issue his own EO and outlaw these "public service" unions for federal employees.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/24/2025 10:03:09 AM (No. 2020905)
They should immediately be investigated for possible for kickbacks and other fraud. What union officer in his right mind would fight to keep illegal and under qualified drivers on the road, unless they were profiting from it?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Socio 10/24/2025 10:06:53 AM (No. 2020908)
Now Trump should come out and say something like "my administration is looking at banning public sector Unions, they are very bad." Government employees are meant to serve the people, but when they are in Unions, they have an incentive to get as much as they can from the people for as least amount possible in return.
They also are very politically partisan and skew the political landscape which is bad for the people and the country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/24/2025 10:49:44 AM (No. 2020935)
The Democrat party is a subversive commie fifth column organization and should be shot. In a nice way, with a .22.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FLCracker 10/24/2025 11:54:23 AM (No. 2020972)
Because members of The American Federation of Teachers are so frequently required to drive 18-wheelers.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Axeman 10/24/2025 12:10:20 PM (No. 2020989)
School buses or any other Gov't vehicle of The United States should not be being driven by foreign nationals who are in the country illegally or under "asylum". There should be no argument or grounds for a lawsuit.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/24/2025 12:26:59 PM (No. 2020998)
This is insane!
The employee unions argue that loss of commercial drivers' licenses for immigrants will cause businesses and livelihoods to suffer.
“Drivers who take our children to school, deliver food and medicine, and clean trash off the streets must have these commercial driver's licenses, and denying them inflicts unnecessary pain on everyone their lives touch,” said Lee Saunders, AFSCME president.
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 10/24/2025 12:29:00 PM (No. 2020999)
In a sane world, these lawsuits would be thrown out for lack of standing. However, nod doubt, they've forum shopped and will find a leftist judge who will rule in their favor regardless.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
paral04 10/24/2025 4:16:45 PM (No. 2021087)
So you don't need a CDL License to drive a big rig if you are an illegal. Wow! Life on the highways is going to be a demo derby won't it.
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