Rubio announces pause on work visas for commercial truck drivers after Florida crash

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday night announced that the United States is halting all issuance of work visas for commercial truck drivers, after an illegal migrant truck driver was involved in a fatal crash in Florida last week.

Harjinder Singh, who is in the country illegally but has a commercial driver's license from California, attempted to make a U-turn in an unauthorized area with a commercial semi-truck with a trailer on the Florida Turnpike on Aug. 12, but the trailer jackknifed and a minivan ran into it, killing all three of the minivan's passengers.

Rubio said that the pause comes as the number of foreign drivers operating commercial trucks increases, which is allegedly endangering Americans. 

"Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers," Rubio posted on X. "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."

Singh, who has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide in connection with the crash, entered the United States illegally in 2018 but was reportedly granted work authorization under the Biden administration in 2021, per the Department of Homeland Security. 

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.