Florida Probe Uncovers Migrant CDL Test Cheating With Hidden Cameras

Florida investigators say some migrants have been using hidden cameras and earpieces to cheat on commercial driver’s license (CDL) exams, allowing them to operate 18-wheelers despite not knowing English, according to WTLV-TV and Breitbart.

According to WTLV-TV, applicants used tiny cameras to transmit test questions outside DMV facilities, where an accomplice provided answers through an earpiece. Police in Jacksonville recently arrested several migrants in the scheme. One man was sentenced to eight months in prison, another was turned over to ICE, and others had cases dismissed after court-ordered conditions.

Officials describe the cheating operation as “highly organized” and likely active nationwide. It comes amid a rise in fatal crashes involving non-English-speaking truckers.

Mellissa Dzion, who lost her son Connor in one such crash, is urging Congress to pass “Connor’s Law,” which would require all commercial drivers to read and speak English.

The report says that the cheating is not the only scheme. In Bay County, Florida DMV staff were caught selling up to 1,000 licenses to migrants without tests. Similar scandals have surfaced in Kentucky, where licenses went for $200 each, and in Boston, where investigators broke up another ring.

Critics link the surge in non-English-speaking truck drivers to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. Following a deadly Florida crash this month, the state announced new checkpoints: ICE will now operate at truck weigh stations, and agricultural inspection stations will double as immigration stops.

On August 12, 2025, a fatal crash on Florida’s Turnpike killed three people when truck driver Harjinder Singh, an undocumented immigrant from India, attempted an illegal U-turn through a restricted median and a minivan slammed into his trailer.

Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 and held a California commercial license, now faces vehicular homicide and manslaughter charges and is being held without bond under an ICE detainer. The tragedy sparked a political clash over state licensing policies, renewed scrutiny of English-language requirements for truckers after Singh failed a basic proficiency test, and divided public opinion—highlighted by a petition with more than 2 million signatures arguing the crash was “an accident.”