Duffy blasts court ruling on illegal immigrant commercial driver’s licenses

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Monday dismissed a court docket ruling that denied the Trump administration’s request to stop unlawful immigrants from acquiring industrial driver’s licenses (CDL).

“We’re not going to take this mendacity down,” Duffy stated on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“We’re going to do all the things we will to guard the American folks.”

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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks alongside Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., throughout a information convention on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23. (Eric Lee/Getty Photographs)

Duffy’s feedback come after a federal appeals court docket in Washington, D.C. dominated final Thursday that the Division of Transportation’s (DOT) restrictions on immigrants acquiring industrial driver’s licenses can’t be enforced.

Such restrictions had been introduced in September, after unlawful immigrant truck driver Harjinder Singh was accused of inflicting a tractor-trailer crash that killed three folks in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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Composite picture reveals firefighters responding to a deadly crash in Florida linked to Harjinder Singh’s truck (left) and a bodycam footage of Singh being cited for dashing in New Mexico on July 3 (proper). (St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace; New Mexico State Police bodycam)

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The court docket discovered that the federal authorities didn’t comply with correct process in drafting the brand new rule and failed to clarify how the rule would promote security. In addition they famous that knowledge from the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration reveals that about 5% of all industrial driver’s licenses belong to immigrants, regardless that they solely account for about 0.2% of deadly crashes.

Duffy attributed a lot of the blame to the Biden administration, which he stated allowed thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants in, granted them work permits after which allow them to search CDLs.

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“Individuals are dying,” he stated.

“And we thought it was applicable to guard People and that we must always have an emergency rule, and never undergo the months-long course of. We did that. The court docket reversed us and stated, ‘We’re not solely certain that is an emergency. We wish to see extra knowledge.’ And I am like… ‘Watch any present on tv and you will see the chance to the American folks.'”

Fox Information’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.