Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem is asking out sanctuary states for purportedly permitting unlawful immigrants to get industrial driver’s licenses, warning that untrained drivers are turning 18-wheelers into “weapons.”
Noem singled out California Gov. Gavin Newsom after three individuals had been killed on Oct. 21 in a crash involving an unlawful immigrant truck driver.
“He’s handing out driver’s licenses to individuals with no documentation. A few of these people aren’t even giving a reputation,” Noem mentioned Thursday on “America Experiences.”
The secretary mentioned they’ve uncovered driver’s licenses that learn “no title given” that had been used to get industrial driver’s licenses.
“Gov. Newsom wants to know that saving lives is the number-one precedence,” she mentioned.
Each Noem and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have accused Newsom of enabling immigrants within the nation illegally to acquire industrial licenses.
Their renewed scrutiny of the problem comes after the Oct. 21 crash on a Southern California freeway, the place 21-year-old Indian nationwide Jashanpreet Singh allegedly drove a semi-truck whereas beneath the affect, triggering a multi-car pileup that resulted in three fatalities.
“We’re actually seeing and peeling again the onion on who’s permitting these harmful people to get on our roads and get behind 18-wheelers that flip into weapons once they don’t know how you can use them, they don’t know how you can function them, and so they can’t converse our language or interpret our legal guidelines,” she added.
Newsom’s workplace blamed the federal authorities for the crash, arguing its insurance policies finally allowed the suspect to obtain a license, saying California’s industrial driver’s licensing legal guidelines adjust to federal laws.
“Misplaced within the immigrant-bashing is the truth that drivers holding a California-issued CDL are concerned in deadly crashes at a charge far decrease than the nationwide common,” a Newsom spokesperson beforehand advised Fox Information Digital.
“If the main focus had been on security, California ought to be a poster baby, not a scapegoat.”
Noem added that DHS’s immigration enforcement efforts have already led to the arrests of dozens of unlawful immigrant truck drivers.
“Operation Halfway Blitz has already eliminated over 140 unlawful alien truck drivers in Indiana. The courageous women and men of @ICEgov and the Indiana State Police are working nonstop to get prison unlawful aliens out of our communities and off our roads,” Noem wrote on X, previously Twitter.
