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By the DOT’s own estimate, the proposed regulations would force about 200,000 immigrants out of the trucking industry. That includes asylum-seekers, as well as immigrants with temporary protected status or DACA.
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To be clear, states are already blocked from giving commercial driver’s licenses to anyone in the U.S. illegally. Immigrants with temporary legal status do need work authorization from the federal government in order to qualify for a CDL.
But the Dalilah Law, as well as regulations proposed by the DOT, would tighten those restrictions.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals put the brakes on the emergency version of those regulations last year. The DOT tried again, issuing a final rule that takes effect Monday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that’s necessary because state DMVs can’t evaluate the driving records of immigrants who have not been thoroughly vetted.
“We don’t go back and look at their driving record,” Duffy said during a press conference last month. “So we have zero insight into the kind of people we’re giving a commercial driver’s license to.”
Duffy called that “unacceptable,” saying the administration wants to “increase those standards and make them all equal, increasing the requirements for a foreigner to get a commercial driver’s license.”
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