Posted on 01/02/2026 2:39:48 PM PST by DFG
The California Department of Motor Vehicles said this week that it is delaying the cancellation of thousands of migrant truck driver licenses.
The announcement means approximately 17,000 migrant truck drivers won’t have their commercial licenses revoked on Jan. 5. Instead, they can remain on the roads and will have another two months to re-test and re-apply.
The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which announced in November 2025 that it would compel California to revoke thousands of what it calls “illegally issued” non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses.
A nationwide audit revealed “systemic policy, procedural, and programming errors in California’s non-domiciled CDL program, which allowed thousands of CDLs to be illegally issued to foreign drivers,” according to the DOT.
A series of fatal crashes in 2025 prompted a closer examination of non-domiciled CDL holders. In October, a collision involving a trucker whose immigration status is in dispute killed three people just outside of Los Angeles.
In August, a truck driver in Florida, not authorized to be in the U.S., made an illegal U-turn and killed three people
The decision to delay the revocation of licenses comes just days after immigrant rights groups sued the California DMV.
The Sikh Coalition and the Asian Law Caucus filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of California drivers, alleging immigrant truck drivers are being unfairly targeted and licenses are getting cancelled for minor paperwork discrepancies.
The drivers in the fatal Florida and California crashes were both Sikhs.
An estimated 150,000 Punjabi Sikhs work in the American trucking industry, with the majority based on the West Coast, according to the Los Angeles Times.
California doesn’t have an extension, Duffy says
On X, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy repeated his threat to withhold $160 million in federal funding if California doesn’t meet the Jan. 5 deadline to revoke licenses.
“California does NOT have an ‘extension’ to keep breaking the law and putting Americans at risk on the roads,” Duffy wrote, disputing the DMV’s announcement.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to Duffy on X, claiming the transportation department had agreed to a deadline extension over a week ago and calling the situation “federal mismanagement”.
In October, Duffy withheld $40 million in federal funding from California for being the only state not to enforce English language requirements for truckers.
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Cut off all federal funds until California complies.
Yes, ALL funds, period! This is supposed to be a land of law, but the tards are destroying it before our eyes.
Is there a judge who can get them to do it?
Maybe a “writ of mandamus”-—the opposite of the usual Leftist judges’ injunctions.
Will California be responsible for all accidents involving these drivers?
Every new victim of the reckless drivers who can’t read the road sign instructions is on the heads of those politicians.
At one side of the clearing a Bull Moose roars a challenge and paws the ground. At the other side of the clearing another Bull Moose shakes his head side to side, feeling the weight of his mighty antler and confidently roars his answer.
Remember my reasonably unknown theorem: nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled, and only then it is settled.3
But as horrific crashes on the highways with people inside crumpled vehicles show.....they do NOT stay inside California.
We are all at risk.
CAN ALL THE INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO HAVE ACCIDENTS REPORTED WITH ILLEGAL DRIVERS SUE CALIF????
Start seizing the trucks and all their content and this will end overnight.
Isn’t the Feds going to do something about this? Please forget the news conferences telling us how bad ass y’all are. We have see one person who flamed Teslas and the Teslas dearerships go to prison. Like the Hero of the Dipstick Court Skanks, Kid Abrego. All far lefties are bulletproof. They cand do anything they want. I can’t believe a single MS-13 piece of feces took on the entire U.S. Government AND WON!
No problem. Every other State when the stop such a driver, park the rig! Tell the company to send a legal driver because that’s the only way it’s rolling!
All Weigh Stations should check license and citizenship and then say, “Pull into parking lot for further action.” It is that simple.
>>Cut off all federal funds until California complies.
Revoke all California CDLs outside of California state roads. No Interstates, no leaving the state of Commiefornia until they comply.
“Start seizing the trucks and all their content and this will end overnight.”
Or, start arresting the CA politicians and bureaucrats who made this happen.
Kali’s insurrection continues unabated.
Stop and review/arrest those coming out of Cali. Simple. I mean, if it saves just one life, its worth it. (Libs hate their words used against them.)
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