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After a full on showdown at the state capitol in Little Rock, the Arkansas state legislature has passed a bill that would impose up to $1,000 fines on commercial vehicle (CMV) drivers in the state who can’t readily speak and read English, as well as making it a Class D felony for foreign drivers to operate a CMV without proper documentation or with false credentials. 

“The American trucking industry is experiencing a replacement of the American truck driver with this new truck driver that is being brought into the country and being dumped in,” he said, explaining that it is difficult for U.S. truck drivers to compete with foreigners from Eastern Europe and Asia and “all these places that are used to making third world living wages.”

Several major highway collisions across the U.S. have raised serious red flags about public safety and national security threats.

Company tied to crash has lengthy history of hiring “drivers who lack valid commercial driver’s licenses and who can’t speak English,” according to trucking watchdog

Leaders of a trucking advocacy group are sounding the alarm, claiming that the American Trucking Association (ATA) advised the federal government during the Biden-Harris administration to issue hundreds of thousands of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to non-citizens—many of whom reportedly cannot read or write English. Many of these unvetted migrants were funneled into the long-haul trucking sector, which poses national security and public safety risks.

The truck driver involved in a deadly crash last summer is now facing his 17th deportation after being released from jail. 

A suspected illegal immigrant convicted in a deadly Colorado crash last year involving a semi-truck he was driving was detained on Sunday by federal immigration authorities.