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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement this week halting work visas for overseas industrial truck drivers drew reward from conservatives within the wake of a lethal accident in Florida.
“Efficient instantly, we’re pausing all issuance of employee visas for industrial truck drivers,” Rubio introduced on X on Thursday. “The rising variety of overseas drivers working massive tractor-trailer vans on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.”
The transfer follows a lethal crash in Florida by which an unlawful immigrant from India allegedly struck and killed three folks whereas driving a truck. Questions nonetheless loom about how he obtained a industrial driver’s license, as federal investigators say the suspect, Harjinder Singh, failed English proficiency and street signal assessments.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday mentioned he would pause the issuance of employee visa for industrial vans drivers following a crash involving Harjinder Singh, an unlawful immigrant accused of killed three folks in Florida in a crash. (Getty Photos; U.S. Marshals Service)
Jessica Vaughan, director of coverage research on the Middle for Immigration Research, acknowledged the transfer is “lengthy overdue” and that industrial truck drivers shouldn’t be introduced in from different nations within the first place.
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“There are authentic questions on how certified these overseas truck drivers are, following the horrible episode in Florida, the place a non-English-speaking unlawful alien who by no means ought to have been given any form of driver’s license triggered the loss of life of three folks as he botched an unlawful U-turn in the midst of a divided freeway,” Vaughan mentioned.
People cannot rely upon trucking firms and state regulators to verify overseas truck drivers are competent and protected, she added.
The director of the Heritage Basis’s Border Safety and Immigration Middle, Lora Ries, mentioned it’s “about street security and immigration integrity.”
RUBIO PAUSES WORKER VISAS FOR TRUCK DRIVERS AFTER DEADLY FLORIDA CRASH INVOLVING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLS 3
A brand new mugshot offered by the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace of Harjinder Singh, who was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace)
“DHS and the State Division must also analyze all present industrial truck drivers utilizing a visa or an employment authorization doc as the premise to acquire a industrial driver’s license and revoke such immigration advantages the place applicable. That is about street security and immigration integrity,” Ries wrote in an announcement to Fox Information Digital.
Republican legal professional Mehek Cooke mentioned it in the end boils right down to “sovereignty and security.”
Fox Information Digital additionally reached out to left-leaning immigrant advocacy teams, together with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Nationwide Immigration Regulation Middle.
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Harjinder Singh is escorted onto an airplane by Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and legislation enforcement on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Stockton, Calif. (Benjamin Fanjoy/AP Photograph)
“Huge truck driver scarcity that’s driving up the costs of all the things we buy and Rubio decides to make it worse primarily based on an anecdote. Completely absurd decision-making course of although I don’t know what visas he’s even speaking about ‘pausing,’” David Bier, the CATO Institute’s director of immigration research, posted to X in disagreement with the transfer from Rubio.
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The Trump administration has made a sequence of main immigration reforms, as mass deportation efforts are underway following the Biden-era border disaster. As well as, the administration introduced that it’s presently reviewing thousands and thousands of individuals with U.S. visas.
“The division’s steady vetting contains all the greater than 55 million foreigners who presently maintain legitimate U.S. visas,” a State Division spokesperson instructed Fox Information Digital on Friday.
Fox Information Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
