The US will stop issuing visas for the US commercial truck drivers, the announcement on Thursday by State Secretary Marco Rubio. He said that the change was immediately effective.
“Increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on American roads is endangering American life and reducing the livelihood of American truck drivers,” Rubio wrote In a post on X.
A spokesman for the State Department said that on Thursday, it was stopped “to make a wide and intensive review of screening and veating protocols used to determine its qualifications for the US visa.”
The spokesman said that this “applies to all nationalities and is not directed in a specific country.”
In the previous months, the Trump administration has taken steps to implement the need of a truck truck. Speak and read English efficiently. The Transport Department said that its objective is to improve road safety, in which the drivers may contribute to traffic deaths in the ability to read or English.
The State Department spokesman said, “As we have seen with deadly accidents, foreign truck drivers can pose risks to American life, US national security and foreign policy interests.” “It is important to ensure that each driver on our roads meet the highest standards, protecting the livelihood of American truck drivers and maintaining a safe, flexible supply chain.”
This step comes Between the lack of a commercial truck driver In the US, according to the American Trucking Association, a business group, industry is facing a shortage of around 60,000 drivers.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration also said that on Thursday it is reviewing over 55 million people who have an American visa for any violations that can cause exile.
In a written reply to a question of the Associated Press, the state department stated that all American visa holders, which can be included in many countries, are subject to “continuous veating”, with an eye towards any sign, they may be unqualified to allow or allow them to live in the United States.
Whether such information should be found, the visa will be canceled, and if the visa holder is in America, it will be subject to exile.
Ever since President Trump took over, his administration has focused on illegally deporting migrants in the US. Also the holder of the student And visitor exchange visa. The new language of the Department of State shows that the regular veating process, which the authorities have admitted that this time is going to take, is far wider and it may mean that even those approved in the US can also cancel those permissions.
