California to revoke 17k commercial driver's licenses for immigrants

California will revoke 17,000 commercial driver's licenses for immigrants after finding that the expiration dates were past the end of their visas.

State officials made the announcement on Wednesday, after the Trump administration criticized California for issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, The Associated Press reported.

The issue of migrants having a commercial driver's license follows a car crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver killed three people last month in California, and another illegal immigrant, who received one from California, causing a crash in Florida in August that killed three people.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, “After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, [Democrat Gov.] Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked. This is just the tip of [the] iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”

According to Newsom's office, the drivers whose licenses are being revoked had valid work authorizations from the federal government. The office said that the revoked licenses expired on or before the end of an immigrant’s legal status to be in the U.S.

Newsom’s spokesperson Brandon Richards criticized Duffy in a statement.

“Once again, the Sean ‘Road Rules’ Duffy fails to share the truth – spreading easily disproven falsehoods in a sad and desperate attempt to please his dear leader,” Richards said.