Politics are responsible for California’s revocation of driver’s licenses to illegals

The Trump administration had issued harsh criticism at California and other states that provide commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. According to the Associated Press, California has now announced it plans to revoke 17,000 licenses given to illegals.

The issue was thrust into the public’s consciousness in August, when a tractor-trailer driver from India, who not authorized to be in the U.S., made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Fort Pierce, Florida. The result was the deaths of three people. As Fox News reported, the driver, Harjinder Sign, failed the commercial driver’s license test 10 times.

Art Arthur is a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

“It’s understandable that the federal government hasn’t actually stepped into this issue earlier. Now, of course, they do set highway standards on a national level, but up until the Biden administration, I don’t think anybody in congress ever anticipated that millions of people would simply be released into the United States,” explains Arthur.