Rubio stops work visas for truck drivers citing serious safety problems

The announcement of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week interrupting the work visas for the drivers of foreign commercial trucks praised the conservatives following a fatal accident in Florida.

“In force immediately, we stop any workplace visa visas for commercial truck drivers,” Rubio announced on X Thursday. “The growing number of foreign drivers operating large semi-trailer trucks on American roads endangers American lives and undercoke the livelihoods of American truckers.”

This decision follows a fatal accident in Florida in which an illegal immigrant from India would have hit and killed three people by driving a truck. The questions are still looming on how he obtained a commercial driving license, because federal investigators say that the suspect, Harjinder Singh, failed the skill tests in English and road panels.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that he would arouse the worker’s visa visa for commercial truck drivers following an accident involving Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant accused of killing three people in Florida in an accident. (Getty Images; Us Marshals Service)

Jessica Vaughan, director of political studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said that this decision was “expected for a long time” and that commercial truck drivers should not be brought from other nations in the first place.

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“There are legitimate questions about how these foreign truck drivers qualified, following the horrible episode in Florida, where an illegal non-English-speaking foreigner who should never have received a driving license caused the death of three people while he has botched an illegal turnover in the middle of a divided highway,” said Vaughan.

Americans cannot depend on trucking companies and state regulators to ensure that foreign truck drivers are competent and safe, she added.

The director of the Borders’ Security and Immigration Center of the Heritage Foundation, said that it was “road safety and the integrity of immigration”.

Rubio pauses workers’ visas for truck drivers after a fatal accident in Florida involving illegal immigrants kills 3

A new mugshot provided by the Sheriff’s office of the County of St. Lucie de Harjinder Singh, who was sentenced to the county of St. Lucie, on Friday August 22, 2025. (Bureau of the Sheriff of the County of St. Lucie)

“The DHS and the State Department should also analyze all the current commercial truck drivers using a visa or a job authorization document as a basis to obtain a commercial driving license and revoke these immigration services, if applicable. It is the road safety and the integrity of immigration,” Ries wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Republican lawyer Mehek Cooke said that it was ultimately summed up for “sovereignty and security”.

Fox News Digital also contacted defending groups for leftist immigrants, notably the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigration Law Center.

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Harjinder Singh is escorted on an airplane by the Lieutenant-Governor of Florida Jay Collins and the police on Thursday August 21, 2025 in Stockton, California. (Benjamin Fanjoy / Photo)

“A massive truck driver shortage that increases the prices of everything we buy and Rubio decides to aggravate the situation based on an anecdote. The completely absurd decision -making process, although I do not know what visas he even talks about a break ”,” David Bier, the director of immigration studies at Cato Institute, was published on X Rubio.

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The Trump administration has made a series of important immigration reforms, as mass expulsion efforts are underway following the border crisis of the Biden era. In addition, the administration has announced that it is currently examining millions of people with American visas.

“The continuous verification of the ministry includes every 55 million foreigners who currently have valid American visas,” a spokesman for the State Department said on Friday.

Rachel Wolf of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.