The immigration failures of the Biden administration have brought us to a place where Americans are beginning to second-guess their safety around truck drivers on the highways. For decades, people felt more comfortable driving around truckers because they were highly skilled drivers who took safety seriously.
With mass immigration and the federal government’s erosion of regulations to prevent unqualified drivers, we are all less safe on our roads. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy now faces an uphill battle to repair the damage caused by Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and to overcome resistance from Resistance Democrats who aim to politicize our roadways.
"The last secretary, in essence, allowed the commercial driving schools to self-certify. You had schools to become a truck driver, where it was just a P.O. box. There was no curriculum, there were no trucks. You pay someone $800, $1,000 and they will send you a certificate that you passed a commercial driver’s license school, and you have no training," Duffy said.
With millions of illegal immigrants streaming through our border, the Biden administration gave them work authorizations while they waited for their asylum claims. This sprouted a fraudulent industry of CDL training schools catering to foreign drivers, promising guaranteed licenses in a matter of days rather than weeks of training, with the risk of failure for American prospects. The most radical states in the union are finding themselves on the opposite end of common sense and roadway safety to score political points against a Trump appointee.
"This is not partisan. This is human life. This is safety," expressed Secretary Duffy in a sit-down interview for my upcoming documentary, "The Illegal Highways."
The Secretary continued, “I can fight with Democrats all day long. There’s a whole bunch of things we could fight about, but not this. This is just good government, like do the right thing governors.”
Governors like Kathy Hochul prefer to focus their ire against anyone attached to Donald Trump, instead of advocating for Americans to safely prosper in our great nation. Throughout our interview, Secretary Duffy stated that he is limited in his enforcement capabilities because the states are responsible for licensing and enforcing regulations.
“California was one that was really uncooperative. Eventually, we pulled in almost $160 million from them, and they’ve now come into compliance. New York has said, ‘We’re totally not going to comply.’”
“And what’s frustrating about that is if you have a certain point of view in California to give illegals commercial driver’s licenses that aren’t qualified to drive, that driver doesn’t just endanger the community of California. They endanger all Americans because these trucks are driving on all of our roads across the country.”
What I gathered from Duffy and his team is that he takes every loss of American life personally and is outraged when a life is lost because of political negligence. Since the U-turn crash on the Florida Turnpike involving an illegal immigrant from India, Sean Duffy has been a righteous crusader to advocate for the lives lost by something preventable.
He agreed to appear in my documentary because he understood that the premise of the film was to give the families who lost loved ones to illegal immigrant truckers an opportunity to tell the world about their familial tragedy and injustices they continue to face.
We can’t prevent every car crash that results in a death. However, every person who loses their life to an illegal immigrant driver is a preventable death because they would be alive if that person were prevented from entering and staying in America.
For the families who lost loved ones, all of whom were involved in crashes with drivers who came into this country during the Biden administration, and one in particular had been deported 16 times before the crash. Secretary Duffy understands this reality, and even with limited enforcement capabilities, he isn’t afraid to do what it takes to protect an American life.
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