The Trump administration is highlighting what it calls a widespread failure in the trucking industry: illegal aliens with commercial driver’s licenses who lack basic qualifications — including, in at least one case, a name.
Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin reported that the Department of Homeland Security on Monday introduced a new interagency task force called “Crossroads of America.” The goal, Tobin said, is to remove unqualified drivers — including those who cannot read road signs — from behind the wheels of 40-ton trucks. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin offered a striking example: a commercial driver’s license that listed “No Name Given” as the holder’s identity. Tobin also noted that 5,000 drivers had failed basic English proficiency tests.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, according to Tobin, pointed the finger at the Biden administration’s decision to allow truck driving schools to self-certify. Some of those schools, Duffy said, lacked trucks or even real estate to properly test new drivers. As a result, 110 trucking schools that were allegedly enabling unqualified illegal immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses have been shut down. Homeland Security and ICE investigators are continuing to search for more unqualified drivers and schools.
At a press conference, Duffy framed the issue as a matter of public safety rather than immigration policy. “This is not a conversation about illegals,” he said. “You can have that debate, you can have that conversation. All I’m saying is, if you’re here illegally and you can’t speak the language and you’re not well trained, you don’t deserve to be in a big rig driving on American roads, endangering American citizens.”
The administration’s push follows a series of high-profile incidents involving noncitizen truck drivers. In early August, federal officers arrested 95 illegal alien truck drivers in Arizona — all of whom held licenses from New York or California, according to the report. The broader issue, as conservative commentators have noted, is that some employers deliberately hire undocumented workers to cut labor costs, often paying lower wages and offering fewer benefits. That practice, critics argue, puts American workers — particularly blue-collar men — at a disadvantage in the job market.
The human toll has been significant. The article lists multiple fatal crashes attributed to illegal alien truck drivers over the past few years. These include the death of a Kyrgyzstan national who drove into oncoming traffic in Indiana in February, and a Haitian national who struck and killed a Pennsylvania State Police trooper in July. In 2024, an Indian national paralyzed a young girl named Dalilah Coleman. More recently, a hit-and-run in California killed two people in May, and a semi-truck crash in Washington state in December killed 29-year-old Robert B. Pearson. In Mississippi, an Indian national killed a man named Dedric Garrett with a Freightliner.
The article also notes that more than half a dozen deadly crashes in recent years have involved drivers from India with the surname Singh. One such driver, Jashanpreet Singh, received a sentence of less than five years for killing three people in California last year — a punishment critics call too lenient.
The Trump administration’s task force is part of a broader effort to address these incidents and restore what officials describe as basic standards for commercial drivers. Whether the crackdown will reduce the number of unqualified drivers on the road remains to be seen, but the administration is signaling that the issue is a priority.
Source: pjmedia.com — https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/08/31/trump-admin-says-certified-alien-truck-driver-had-no-name-given-n4956741
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