Posted on 06/29/2005 7:01:30 PM PDT by madfly
Dept. of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Custom's Enforcement (ICE) officials reported arresting an illegal alien who was driving gasoline trucks for Exxon in Maryland, as well as six illegal aliens in Illinois who had also been issued state commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) with hazardous materials endorsements. The gasoline truck driver, a Pakistan national identified as Mansoor Hassan, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore on six counts of making false statements about his citizenship to work for different gas companies. (?date) In 1996, Hasaan had been ordered by an Immigration Judge to voluntarily leave the U.S. He defied the order and instead obtained a fraudulent CDL in Maryland, according to ICE officials. The Illinois arrests were thanks to a joint investigation conducted by ICE, the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, and the Illinois Secretary of State Police. Like the arrest in Maryland, they followed previous enforcement actions in Maryland, Michigan and Florida in which more than 100 individuals were arrested in connection with fraud schemes that enabled illegal aliens to obtain valid CDLs, hazardous materials endorsements, and/or diver's licenses through various state Dept. of Motor Vehicles. "This cooperative law enforcement effort has closed a security vulnerability that might have resulted in dire consequences," Elissa Brown, Special Agent-in-Charge of the ICE Chicago Office of Investigations said in a news release. "This is a national security issue. Illegal aliens should not have the freedom to transport hazardous materials throughout the United States." Separately, ICE provided an update to its earlier driver's license crackdown in Florida announced in late April. According to ICE, it resulted in numerous arrests, including those of three Florida Dept. of Motor Vehicles examiners and five "middlemen" who are accused of having issued licenses to more than 2,000 illegal aliens for a fee, includiCDLs, and hazmat-hauling endorsements. See Gaps in CDL integrity. To date, more than 100 people have been arrested in Florida and 21 illegal aliens identified as having obtained Florida CDLs. ICE said the CDLs are believed to have been sold for between $1,500 and $3,000, while driver's licenses went for between $100 and $200. Among the illegal aliens who had obtained CDL's and hazmat endorsements, ICE reports that some had past criminal records, including driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, resisting arrest, burglary, battery, weapons charges and drug charges. According to preliminary information from the Florida Highway Patrol, at least 11 auto accidents have also been linked to those arrested, none of whom had the training required to operate a commercial vehicle. For more information on this publication, or to subscribe to the print edition, visit http://www.fleetowner.com.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Bump......
Paid drivers with all the inside information, no need for photos, maps etc.
Think of all the places that gas is delivered to, schools,
police departments, anyone with a fleet of vehicles.
Frequent posters over there are my arizona gramdma, velveeta, freeperfromnj, among many others.
Sadly not the case, I remember them holding local oral testing in South Philly for drivers that didnt know how to read...
Honest.....Being a former CDL instructor I can tell you this is a MAJOR problem in the trucking industry.....
Keep your eyes open......we are being invaded
Something MUST be done to the cheap labor-adddiced employers (and members of government) who are willing to sacrifice America's safety for the sake of a buck.
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