Florida Weigh Station Immigration Checks Serve As National Blueprint For Addressing Migrant CDL Crisis

About two weeks after an illegal alien truck driver made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway, killing three Americans, Florida officials – responding to uproar from residents across the state and across the nation – will begin rolling out federal immigration checkpoints at all agricultural inspection stations. The move serves as a blueprint for other states to confront the migrant CDL crisis, which is not only a public safety threat but also a national security threat. Thank the Biden-Harris regime for the migrant CDL crisis that is killing Americans.

“There’s no telling how many illegal aliens are in this country driving large commercial vehicles and putting American families in a safety risk every single day,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told reporters Monday during a press conference in Live Oak, a city north of Gainesville.

Uthmeier said his team is sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, urging the Trump administration to revoke the CDL license program authority and strip related federal funding from California and Washington. We have warned for many months that these sanctuary states handed out CDLs to migrants “like candy.” 

“States like California and Washington ignored the rules, gave an illegal alien a license to drive a 40-ton truck, and three people are dead as a result,” Uthmeier said, adding, “In response, we’re supporting our Agricultural Law Enforcement and state police to ramp up inspections at state entry-points for illegal aliens who may be operating large trucks using out-of-state driver’s licenses.”

Last Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio took decisive action to address the non-domiciled CDL crisis by “pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers” (read the note here).

Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025

Rubio’s action at State comes shortly after DoT Secretary Sean P. Duffy told the nation that the horrific incident involving an alien truck driver in Florida killing three Americans “cannot happen again.” 

This cannot happen again.

.@FMCSA is launching an investigation into both the driver and White Hawk Carrier.

Here’s what we know:

1. Washington State improperly issued the driver a full-term CDL. Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are NOT allowed to receive this!

2. New Mexico… pic.twitter.com/Qlf8T68IJz

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) August 19, 2025

The issue Duffy and the Trump administration are discovering is that, under the Biden-Harris globalist regime’s open-borders invasion, the previous administration had boasted about “reducing barriers” for people to obtain CDLs. Figures from the previous administration showed that nearly a million CDLs were handed out like candy in just a short period of time. 

American Truckers United - the leader in exposing this migrant CDL crisis – has previously warned that many of these CDLs issued under the Biden-Harris regime went to migrants, some of whom don’t speak English and were employed by major trucking firms that served mega globalist corporations. 

Hence, the signs at Walmart:

And Amazon. 

And other trucking hubs. 

And remember, while traveling this holiday weekend, maintain full situational awareness on the highways for 80,000-pound big rigs operated by migrants who can’t read English. It could save your life – and your family’s.

Latest reporting on migrant CDL crisis:

• Advocacy Group Calls For U.S. Probe On Non-English Speaking Migrant Truck Drivers After Deadly Austin Crash

• Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy… Now U.S. Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare

• Rolling Risk: Unvetted Migrants Behind The Wheel Of Big Rigs Threaten U.S. Safety & Security

• From North America To Australia, Migrant Truckers Are Fueling A Highway Safety Crisis

• English Trucking Rule Takes Effect, Federal Probe Begins Of Sanctuary State Migrant CDL Pipeline

• Letter Urges Transportation Sec. Duffy To Ban Foreign CDLs Amid Series Of Highway Crashes

• Highway Mayhem: Trucker From Sanctuary State Illinois Arrested After Baltimore Shooting Spree

• Walmart, Amazon Truck Depots Display Multilingual Signs, Raising Alarms Over Migrant Drivers With No English

• Watch: American Truckers United Issues Dire Warning On ‘Unsafe’ Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers, Crashes

• Florida Highway Horror: Migrant Truck Driver Leaves 3 Americans Dead Amid CDL Crisis

• Illegal Alien Behind Fatal Florida Big Rig Crash; Sec. Duffy Signals Major Action On CDL Crisis

• “This Cannot Happen Again”: Sec. Duffy Readies Major Action Against Rogue States Amid Migrant CDL Crisis

• US “Pauses Issuance Of Worker Visas For Truckers” To Address Illegal Alien CDL Crisis Killing Americans

Red states will most likely follow Florida’s lead by establishing federal immigration checkpoints at all trucking inspection stations.

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