Posted on 12/19/2025 5:57:59 PM PST by xxqqzz
California’s immigrant truckers are under direct threat, and the consequences are already landing in Sacramento’s neighborhoods, warehouses and family households. Drivers with spotless records are walking into the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) locations expecting a routine renewal of their commercial driver's license and walking out unemployed — not because they failed a test or violated a law, but because a federal agency quietly rewrote immigration categories and ordered states to enforce the fallout. This is a bureaucratic ambush. A new rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is sowing confusion across California’s supply chain and logistics network at a moment when the state depends on safety and experience behind the wheel. By forcing DMV offices to rely on outdated federal databases and immigration classifications unrelated to driving ability, the rule sharply limits eligibility to a narrow set of employment-based visas — excluding recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and others with humanitarian or deferred status. TOP VIDEOS The new rule forces individuals with foreign passports to go through exhaustive documentation and compels states to halt non-compliant licenses, audit existing commercial driver’s licenses and rapidly revoke or downgrade those deemed ineligible. The federal government is threatening to withhold highway funding unless states comply with these new policies. Between Nov. 10 and 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stepped in to freeze enforcement of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s interim final rule.
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I voted for this
“”””not because they failed a test or violated a law,””””
DACA recipients are still illegals and as such have broken a law.
*** California’s immigrant truckers are under direct threat***
Please correct this. It should read American citizens are under direct threat…from immigrant truckers.
Pound sand, Sacramento Bee.
Send them all home!
I voted for this. Bbupinder can go drive in India.
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Author “Bhupinder Kaur” is a real putz. In his mind, enforcing the law = federal “overreach.” He should go home. He doesn’t belong here.
And saving American lives.
Oh geez, guess they have to go back to their own country...
Oh look, “Bhupinder Kaur” wrote this.
Federal overreach? No, especially when they cross state lines with that fake certification from a crooked state that says they can drive.
Says “Bhupinder Kaur”, in California. Hahahaha.
“Federal overreach is costing ILLEGAL immigrant drivers their livelihoods | Opinion”
Fixed
Boo hoo.
This communist rag, the Sacramento Bee, is like CNN in print. Both suck big time!
I have a lot of sympathy for DACA folks. Their parents brought them to USA when they were children, 20 or 30 years ago. America is all many of them have ever known, and there has never been a good way for them to get a green card or citizenship.
That said, they are still illegals, and have to be treated like any other illegal.
No bias detected.
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