Rule prevents many immigrant truckers from renewing driver’s license – even if they’ve driven legally for years

Nearly 200,000 US truck drivers are at risk of losing their commercial driver’s licenses after the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a new rule that disqualifies many foreign-born truck drivers from getting or renewing their licenses.

Tens of thousands of immigrant drivers are stuck in a limbo after the rule took effect in March, and lawsuits challenging the rule are still being reviewed by federal courts.

The rule restricts licenses to immigrants who have specific employment authorization statuses, disqualifying those with other authorizations, including asylum seekers, refugees and those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status.

The rule has shaken immigrant drivers who have spent years dedicated to the industry.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Trucking has a problem with under qualified drivers but this isn’t the qualifications I’m talking about.

    As if the rest of the situation isn’t speed running the collapse of the USA, let’s make transportation more expensive. Again.

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      Not only that, but the industry is already short drivers, yet continues to underpay and abuse them

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    Gee this probably won’t further increase shipping costs and therefore increase the cost of everything we buy a whole lot more for no reason at all. Nope. Not at all.

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    Racism is the core the turd Donald floats on.

    Though classicism too, he cares little about any type of poor people.

    He only really cares about foreign dictators who have power than he does

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    Ohio used to have what we called “Party Plates”, bright yellow plates for people who have been convicted on charges of DUI/DWI, at some point they argued that Party Plates were discriminatory against those drivers and reverted it after years of existence. Yet somehow this is perfectly fine?

    Immigrants have less rights than criminals apparently.