Rubio Slams Brakes on Foreign Truck Driver Visas, and Conservatives Are Cheering—About Time!

Well, it looks like someone in D.C. finally woke up and smelled the diesel fumes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell this week, hitting the pause button on work visas for foreign commercial truck drivers. And conservatives are popping the champagne corks, calling it a move that's "long overdue." 

American roads shouldn’t be a free-for-all for unqualified drivers, especially after a horrific crash in Florida that's got everyone's blood boiling.

Rubio took to X on Thursday to lay it out plain and simple: "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." 

This all comes on the heels of a gut-wrenching incident in Florida, where an illegal immigrant from India, Harjinder Singh, allegedly plowed into three people, killing them, while behind the wheel of a big rig. How this guy even got a commercial driver's license is the million-dollar question, especially since federal investigators say he flunked English proficiency and road sign tests. Nothing screams "qualified" like not knowing what a stop sign means.

Jessica Vaughan, the no-nonsense director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said, "There are legitimate questions about how qualified these foreign truck drivers are, following the horrible episode in Florida, where a non-English-speaking illegal alien who never should have been given any kind of driver’s license caused the death of three people as he botched an illegal U-turn in the middle of a divided highway." She's correct: trusting trucking companies and state regulators to vet these drivers is like letting a fox guard the henhouse.

Over at the Heritage Foundation, Lora Ries, director of their Border Security and Immigration Center, doubled down, saying it's "about road safety and immigration integrity." She's calling for a full audit of every foreign truck driver using a visa or employment authorization to hold a commercial license, urging DHS and the State Department to yank those benefits where they don’t belong. "This is about road safety and immigration integrity," she told Fox News Digital. 

Republican attorney Mehek Cooke boiled it down to two words: "sovereignty and safety." Sounds like a campaign slogan we can all get behind.

Of course, the usual suspects on the left are clutching their pearls. David Bier, the CATO Institute's immigration dweeb, whined on X, "Massive truck driver shortage that is driving up the prices of everything we purchase and Rubio decides to make it worse based on an anecdote. Totally absurd decision-making process though I don’t know what visas he’s even talking about ‘pausing.'" 

Oh, David, give us a break. Three dead Americans isn't an "anecdote," it's a tragedy that could've been prevented. Maybe take a break from your ivory tower and talk to the families who lost loved ones.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is in full-on cleanup mode, tackling the Biden-era border mess with mass deportation efforts and a deep dive into the 55 million foreigners holding U.S. visas. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "The department’s continuous vetting includes all of the more than 55 million foreigners who currently hold valid U.S. visas."

Rubio's move isn't just a policy shift; it's a signal that America is done playing fast and loose with its borders and its safety. Florida's Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, who was on Fox & Friends Weekend discussing the Singh case, is probably nodding in approval right now. 

As for where this case goes next, hopefully, straight to justice, and a long, hard look at how we let this guy behind the wheel in the first place.

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State Dept. to demand tourists' social media history

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Starting this week the State Department will publish new rules for immigrants and visitors to the U.S. As per executive order, they will now be required to divulge their recent social media histories, a key security enhancement the president calls 'extreme vetting.'

People entering the United States will also be asked to list email addresses, phone numbers and international travel during the previous five years. They must also divulge any immigration problems they may have had, whether with the U.S. or any other country.

They will be asked about potential family connections to terrorism, and we know they will not lie about it because that goes against the law. 

In countries were female genital mutilation (FGM) is prevalent, particularly Africa, immigrants from these countries will be directed to a website ensuring that they are aware FGM is illegal in the U.S.

"This upgrade to visa vetting is long-overdue, and it's appropriate to apply it to everyone seeking entry, because terrorism is a worldwide problem. The aim is to try to weed out people with radical or dangerous views," said Jessica Vaughan, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Vaughan said that she wishes the system would go beyond what is planned in order to determine whether women coming into the country are doing so in order to have a child here. She said it would cut down on "birth tourism" whereby women in the late stages of pregnancy come to the U.S. to have the child who then becomes a U.S. citizen.

Security specialists have demanded more government vetting of people coming into the country but civil liberties groups, such as the ACLU, have been against this idea because they would rather see one terrorist gain entry than deny a hundred non-terrorists from gaining access to our social welfare system.

About 14 million people would be affected by the new vetting program and about 700,000 others would be affected in the immigration system.



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Two illegal immigrants violently rape 14-year-old child

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Rockville, Md. -- A 14-year-old girl at Rockville High School was violently raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex in a school bathroom stall by two male students. At least one of them is an illegal immigrant, the other's status isn't known.

Henry E. Sanchez-Milian, 18, from Guatamala and Jose O. Montano, 17, from El Salvador were charged with first degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense after they allegedly attacked the child at 9 a.m. Thursday.

The Montgomery County Police said in a statement "The victim was walking in a school hallway when she met two male students, identified as Montano and Sanchez. Montano asked the victim to walk with him and Sanchez. Montano asked the victim to engage in sexual intercourse. She refused."

The statement went on: "Montano asked the victim again and then forced her into a boy's bathroom and then into a stall. Montano and Sanchez both raped the victim inside the bathroom stall."

These young men are young and they still deserve to be either castrated or executed. Then their bodies should be deported in garbage bags to the other side of the Mexican border.

Okay, okay, I'm just very angry. Castrating them would be fine.

Court records describe the brutal assault and merciless rape and they allegedly carried it out multiple times, vaginally, orally and sodomizing her. Blood and male body fluids were recovered from the scene by a forensic expert, according to court records.

The victime knew one of her alleged attackers.

Detectives from the Montgomery County PD Special Victims Investigations Division arrested the pair of scumbags after school officials reported the incident.

Sanchez-Milan was stopped in August 2016 in Rio Valley Grande, Texas by a U.S. Border Patrol agent and determined he entered the country illegally from Mexico.

Sanchez-Milan was ordered to appear before an immigration judge but the hearing had not yet been scheduled. But he had no previous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) encounters and nothing was done to deport him. 

ICE has now lodged an immigration detainer against Sanchez-Milan now that local criminal charges have been placed on him and they can take custody of him once he's released from local custody.

Montano is just a 17-year-old puke, so only his name can be released due to privacy restrictions as he is a minor, according to an ICE official.

But The Washington Post reports Montano arrived in the U.S. 8 months ago and is a citizen of Guatemala.

The attackers and the young girl are in the 9th grade. Neither attacker speaks English and are therefore placed with much younger children, which is the dumbest damn thing imaginable.

The judge who oversaw the bond hearing refused to release them on bail because they are both "dangerous and flight risks."

Ramon Korionoff of the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office said "These are very serious allegations carrying a life sentence. The potential of life in prison would be available as we prosecute these individuals." 

Both POSs will be tried as adults.

Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C. said of the horrible, devastating incident that it's "disturbing on so many levels."

Vaughan said the Obama administration, and it's "disastrous handling" of the surge of illegal aliens coming from Central America, is partially to blame, noting that one or both of these scum-wafers were part of that surge.

"The surge of Central American kids has become a significant problem in many of the school districts where they are allowed to resettle," she said.

In Rockville H.S., about one in three students speak no English. This is a burden on the teachers, the school and the students who have to learn at a slower pace to accommodate the illegal aliens.

Vaughan explained that Montgomery County has one of the "more notorious sanctuary policies," and the police deliberately do not cooperate with ICE.

Perhaps if the poor young girl was the daughter of the Police Chief, things would be different.

"The result is that many gang members and other thugs and miscreants are allowed to remain in the county in defiance of immigration laws and causing problems like this," Vaughan said. And the city of Rockville want to adopt its own sanctuary policy--parents are meeting as I write this.




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