CA delays revoking 17,000 commercial driver's licenses until March after immigrants sue

"California decided to revoke the licenses after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pressured the state to make sure immigrants who are in the country illegally aren't granted the licenses. The Transportation Department has been prioritizing the issue ever since a truck driver who was not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people in August."

"The Sikh Coalition, a national group defending the civil rights of Sikhs, and the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the California drivers. They said immigrant truck drivers were being unfairly targeted. The driver in the Florida crash and the driver in another fatal crash in California in October are both Sikhs."

""Commercial drivers are an important part of our economy - our supply chains don't move, and our communities don't stay connected without them," said DMV Director Steve Gordon."

California will delay revocations of 17,000 commercial driver's licenses until March to allow additional time to verify legal eligibility of affected drivers. The state moved to revoke the licenses after federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pressed for assurance that immigrants not authorized to be in the U.S. are not granted commercial credentials. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration blocked the planned mid-December resumption of issuing such licenses pending satisfaction with state reforms. Immigrant drivers constitute about 20% of truck drivers; non-domiciled commercial licenses account for roughly 5% of the total. Civil-rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit alleging unfair targeting.

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