The full scope of Joe Biden's open border nightmare continues to unfold as federal investigators expose Illinois as the latest sanctuary state handing out commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants like candy on Halloween.
According to new Department of Transportation data, the Land of Lincoln has issued a staggering number of CDL permits to foreign nationals who have no business operating 80,000-pound death machines on American highways. The exact figures are still emerging, but sources familiar with the investigation describe the numbers as "jaw-dropping" and "absolutely terrifying."
This is what four years of Biden's deliberate border destruction looks like, Patriots. While hardworking American truckers followed the rules, studied for their licenses, and built careers through legitimate channels, the previous administration rolled out the red carpet for anyone who wanted to waltz across our border and climb into an 18-wheeler.
Trump Administration Fighting Back
Thankfully, President Trump's team isn't sitting on their hands. The current administration has launched aggressive federal investigations to identify and remove these unqualified drivers before they kill innocent Americans on our highways.
"We're talking about people who can barely read English road signs operating vehicles that can flatten a family sedan," said one federal transportation official speaking on condition of anonymity. "The Biden administration turned our trucking industry into a jobs program for illegal aliens."
Illinois joins the usual rogues' gallery of blue states - California, New York, and others - that prioritized virtue signaling over public safety during the Biden years. These are the same states that declared themselves "sanctuaries" while real Americans suffered the consequences.
The Real Victims
While Democrats play politics with people's lives, American truckers have watched their wages suppressed and jobs threatened by this flood of illegal competition. Meanwhile, every family traveling our interstate system has become an unwilling participant in Biden's reckless social experiment.
How many more Americans will pay the price for the left's open border obsession? And why did it take a change in administration to finally address this public safety crisis that was hiding in plain sight?