As is usually the case regarding a horrific event, it takes something tragic before a microscope is trained on the real issue. Joe Biden and Democrats have plenty of blood on their hands from years of massive waves of illegal immigrants pouring over a wide-open southern border. There have been plenty of high-profile cases like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray. But it took the deaths of three unknown people on a Florida highway to bring attention to the huge problem of illegal immigrants who speak and read little to no English driving 18-wheelers across the country, and the story keeps getting worse.
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Since the Florida crash, the Department of Transportation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have become involved. Since late October, ICE, along with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, has targeted a portion of Interstate 40. The operation has nabbed 70 illegal immigrants, 34 of whom were operating semi-trucks in violation of Oklahoma state law. It is no surprise where the illegal immigrants are obtaining their commercial driver's licenses (CDLs). ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles had this to say:
“For the second time in just the past month, the state of Oklahoma and ICE have banded together to bolster public safety along Oklahoma’s highways, identifying and apprehending illegal aliens who are in the country illegally and have been recklessly issued a commercial driver’s license by states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey. Many of the illegal aliens arrested behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound tractor trailer can’t even read basic English, endangering everyone they encounter on the roads."
Also, as is usual, the details just get more disturbing. The sting operation called "Operation Guardian" discovered, as stated above, that 26 of the illegal immigrant truckers had CDL licenses from the usual suspect states of California, Illinois, and New York. But the best part, eight of the drivers were operating 18-wheelers with no CDL license at all. That's right, no CDL license. The illegal immigrant truckers picked up by Operation Guardian reads like a who's who of the United Nations from countries such as China, Guatemala, India, Uzbekistan, as well as other nations. Many also have extensive rap sheets that include convictions for violent crimes.
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Operation Guardian is the latest operation to date to catch illegal immigrant truckers. In September, during a three-day period, ICE and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol picked up 91 illegal immigrant truck drivers along the same stretch of I-40. In addition to immigration violations, others may have allegedly committed other crimes, like money laundering, human smuggling, and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
But it's not just cracking down on states that issue licenses by the Department of Transportation that is needed, but on the companies hiring them as well. Zach Meiborg owns Meiborg Trucking in Illinois and says the industry is being outsourced to foreign companies. He says foreign companies have no problem hiring illegal immigrants or breaking laws. Meiborg added:
“Their dispatch is over there, their safety is over there, the recruiting is over there, and they do it all digitally online. So they're running foreign labor, imported from overseas, not trained, they're paying them 1099, not W-2, not complying with any of the ACA or state tax laws or federal tax laws.”
He adds that the companies are creating digital logbooks and self-certifying that they are following regulations with very little or no oversight.
It's a good start by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to clean up the mess left by the Biden administration. But as someone who, in a few weeks, will be road-tripping from St. Louis to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for a family wedding, you can bet I am going to be eyeballing who is driving the 18-wheeler in the lane next to me.
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I'm not a proponent of civil forfeiture, but in this case the Gov't should be seizing the trucks and cargo. Next investigate the DMV offices and the employees as someone is on the take, perp walk a few and they will start pointing fingers at the others. Shut down the phony training centers and arrest anyone who signed off on the abilities of those they certified.
ReplyDeleteAll of that and arrest a few truck company owners who hire these drivers with bullshit paperwork.
DeleteRed states bring back Ports of Entry that trucks have to stop and have ready their CDL, their medical certificate, logs, manifests and preform with a inspector grading a pre-trip vehicle inspection and have to pass and pass an comprehensive English language and written comprehension tests to every driver and co-driver in that truck. It will substantially slow down delivery and apprehend these illegal drivers and cause trucking companies lots of money and lost contracts and if a driver is arrested, the truck and cargo is impounded and forfeited. I bet that would straighten out this travesty!
ReplyDeleteI love every bit of that. I do not want to be riding down the interstate, or any highway for that matter, and have a low IQ, driver with no grasp on the laws of the road driving anywhere around me. My wife absolutely hates driving around semi's. She will stay behind them until she works up enough frustration and then pass them quickly in the lane furthest from them.
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