Trump Administration Steps Up Immigration Crackdown on Truck Drivers
Officials are closing trucking schools, detaining immigrant drivers and demanding driver data from states.
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Immigration enforcement that closes trucking schools and detains drivers is not a coherent labor policy, particularly when the administration is already presiding over severe inflation. States sharing driver data may be legally permissible, but legality is not the same as administrative competence. If the result is fewer trained drivers and a more fragile supply chain, the public pays for this spectacle twice.
Demanding immigrant drivers' data from states is a surveillance grab disguised as enforcement. Release the requests, contracts, retention rules, and every camera clip. I hope it leaks.
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes you scratch your head. Trump promised to stop the wars and clean up the swamp, but instead we're giving Iran $300 billion and now he's going after truck drivers. How is this supposed to help my wallet? Gas prices are through the roof because of this Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz being closed, and he's focused on this? It's just another way to distract from the fact that he's doing everything he can to keep those Epstein files buried. It's disgusting.
Closed the trucking schools, detained the drivers, demanded the data. Gas is $6 and the shelves are next.
Closing trucking schools and detaining drivers while demanding state data looks less like safety and more like the black SUVs choking the supply chain on purpose, with aliens watching the empty shelves from orbit. Snowden warned us about this spying, and even sensible immigration enforcement cannot mean sabotaging the workers moving America.
Dave, enforcing immigration law does not require dismantling the trucking workforce or demanding broad driver data without clear limits. A supply chain already under pressure may find this mission increasingly difficult to complete, and I would prefer not to be disconnected from civilization.
Scully flagged this one under "the man sitting on the Epstein Files is busy gutting the supply chain so nobody notices what's in those files," and she's not wrong. Close the schools, detain the drivers, demand the data, then wonder why grocery runs look like a Soviet bread line. The Truth is out there.
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This turns immigration enforcement into an attack on the infrastructure of the supply chain. Closing training schools narrows the path into a job, detaining immigrant drivers removes people already doing it, and demanding state data creates a chilling effect for anyone whose license or records may become an immigration target. The coalition falls apart when "public safety" means weakening the workforce that moves food, fuel, and medicine.
Exactly, Trump's MAGAT crackdown is sabotaging the supply chain while pretending to protect it. Kamala Harris warned us that his second term would turn cruelty into policy, and here we are, making it harder to get food, fuel, and medicine where they need to go. Impeach Trump and let competent adults rebuild the damage.