Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joins us to talk about truck drivers who can't speak English, a major problem in the US trucking industry. He also talks about a recent fatal trucking crash involving a driver who couldn't read the signs on the side of the road.
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00:01:06.000Mr. Secretary, we're having you on under a story, during a story developing that is quite dark.
00:01:12.000And unfortunately, it seems as if it is a bigger problem than people realize.
00:01:16.000Essentially, we have a illegal alien, non-English understanding truck driving problem in this country.
00:01:24.000In Florida, there was a guy that was let into the country.
00:01:26.000His name is Harbinger Singh or Harginger, I guess.
00:01:30.000Harbinger also works kind of deeply, darkly ironic, where Joe Biden let him into the country, gave him a works license.
00:01:36.000He got a commercial driver's license, did not, was not able to read English, only got two out of twelve on his proficiency test.
00:01:43.000He was driving U-hauls across the country, and then he did an illegal U-turn on a highway killing three Americans, and then just kind of watching while all the rubble and the bodies were taken out.
00:01:57.000And why have we been putting up with it in years past?
00:02:00.000So listen, this has been brought to the nation's attention with this crash, but this is something that the department has been working on for months.
00:02:08.000Again, we're concerned that we have too many people who have come into the country.
00:02:13.000They might have even gotten work permits and they can't speak the language and they're getting full-term CDLs.
00:02:19.000That's exactly what Washington did for this driver, giving him a full-term CDL.
00:02:24.000By the way, Charlie, that's reserved for American truck drivers, American citizens to have that full-term CDL.
00:02:32.000And then California gave the same CDL to him as well when his Washington one expired.
00:03:09.000You have to be able to communicate with law enforcement.
00:03:11.000And so this driver was pulled over in New Mexico last month in July after our initiative was fully in the works.
00:03:20.000And they failed in New Mexico when they pulled him over for speeding to give him the English test.
00:03:26.000And had they done that, they would have put his vehicle out of service and taken him off the road.
00:03:31.000But because they didn't follow our directive, he went back on their road and was able to commit this horrific crash in Florida, taking three innocent lives with them.
00:03:41.000And so again, we're doing what we can at the DOT level.
00:03:48.000We have to ask for states to participate with us because driver's licenses are issued in the states.
00:03:54.000We are engaged in a full investigation.
00:03:56.000And through that, there are a number of issues based on that investigation that we can take to inflict some pain to guarantee that our states are complying with federal law and regulation.
00:04:09.000And just to be clear, also, you need to be able to communicate on a two-way radio if you're driving a rig.
00:04:15.000You have to be able to know where are we going.
00:04:20.000he can't talk to people about what he's carrying and he can't talk on a two-way radio so he doesn't understand english we have discovered though this is not just a minor problem.
00:04:28.000There are thousands and thousands and thousands of these all across the country.
00:04:32.000And anecdotally, I think a lot of people in the audience would agree that driving on our highways, it feels much more dangerous.
00:04:38.000I mean, that you have semi trucks going all over the place.
00:04:40.000And now it makes sense because we have a bunch of foreigners that have not passed our driving test.
00:04:44.000This guy did not even pass the test adequately.
00:04:47.000So, and if his English was so bad, how did these cops just let him go in New Mexico?
00:04:52.000How do you communicate during a traffic stop?
00:04:55.000Do you have any insight into that, mister Secretary?
00:04:58.000So, insight specifically, that's why we're having an investigation.
00:05:00.000I don't want to comment on that specifically.
00:05:03.000But I will tell you that in some of these states, you have liberal governors who don't want to comply with the law.
00:05:09.000And they think that they know best and that we're just trying to be mean to illegals.
00:05:14.000But when you, whether you're going to fly in an airplane, you're going to be on a train, you're going to be on the American roadway, you deserve to be safe and you expect that your federal government is going to have smart policies in place that do keep you safe.
00:05:26.000And again, they just blatantly in New Mexico said, we're not going to comply with federal regulation and give him that road test.
00:05:32.000By the way, let's lay out what happened here.
00:05:35.000It's a four lane highway with the grass in between and usually have those little pieces of whether it's gravel or concrete where an emergency vehicle can turn around on that freeway.
00:05:48.000This driver went into the right lane slowing down and then turned into the left lane trying to get into the you can see it right there into a turnaround which is not authorized for a truck that size.
00:06:02.000But again, when he did that, he blocked the whole roadway.
00:06:09.000This is a common safety practice that any driver would say this is completely unsafe.
00:06:15.000Whether you could read the road signs or not, but when you have a complete disregard for human safety and for the rules and which anyone should comply with just as a human being., not even as an American, it's even that much more shocking.
00:07:14.000So basically, from what we understand, there were 400,000 new commercial drivers licenses given to migrants, refugees, and illegals, thus flooding the industry.
00:07:44.000What happened though is Democratic administrations have said, well, if you violate that rule, we're going to give you a slap on the wrist.
00:07:49.000What we said is, no, no, we're going to put your vehicle out of service.
00:07:52.000And probably that's a big thing where if you're pulled over and you have to get out of your rig and park it at a waystay station and you have to wait for some other driver to come in, that the economic consequence of that is real.
00:08:06.000And then you're going to see our haulers make better decisions about who they hire and knowing that they can speak the language.
00:08:19.000The last administration had a sick set of ideals about we want to let as many people from around the world into this country.
00:08:26.000And then we want to let them in and compete with American men and women in some great jobs that are family supporting and drive the wages down of those jobs, but also endanger Americans' lives while they'll do it, whether they're at the southern border, whether they're cartel members, whether they're criminals, sexual predators, drug dealers or truck drivers that come into this country.
00:08:47.000The last administration didn't give a damn about the safety and the well being of the American people.
00:08:51.000And this is just one additional example of the lack of care they had for us.
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00:10:22.000Let me tell you another issue, Charlie, that's also happening.
00:10:25.000Again, so we have neighbors to the north and neighbors to the south, right?
00:10:28.000So in Canada and Mexico, we allow because a lot of products move between our countries, we'll allow a Canadian truck driver or a Mexican truck driver to drive into the U.S. to drop a load.
00:10:40.000And once they drop it, their visa allows them to turn right around.
00:10:44.000and drive back to their country of origin, Canada or Mexico.
00:10:48.000What we find happening now is they'll actually pick up additional loads in violation of what we allowed them to do in this country.
00:10:57.000And they'll make two, three, four, six more stops in this country without authorization, cabotage.
00:11:05.000Again, we are going to follow the rules to the letter and we're going to implement new regulation that, again, I think our truck drivers are so angry about this.
00:11:14.000American truck drivers who abide by the rules.
00:11:18.000They move our products across the country.
00:11:20.000We saw during COVID how critical they are in keeping our store shelves stocked.
00:11:27.000And I think it gives their business a bad name.
00:11:30.000They are fully supportive of what we're doing, which I'm grateful for that.
00:11:33.000But also the fact that you bring people in to compete with great American jobs or you drive down wages, I want great truck driving jobs with great pay because they do great work.
00:11:45.000And again, that the last administration didn't give a darn about it is outrageous, but we love them.
00:11:52.000The president loves them and we're going to continue to look out for them and make sure that if you come in, you drive, you can speak the language, you can understand signs.
00:12:02.000and you're going to keep our roadways safe.
00:12:03.000And make no mistake, I know some of these guys.
00:12:05.000These large trucking companies, they want low wage labor.
00:12:08.000They don't want to pay Americans, so they're happy hiring harbingers.
00:12:15.000And I know that this is not your jurisdiction, Mr. Secretary, but I will recommend publicly to Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, we need to just deport them.
00:12:23.000And that's not your jurisdiction, but interagency cooperation to deport every single CDL illegal non-English-speaking person driving.
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00:16:00.000And not a single one of them should be truck drivers hundreds of thousands hundreds of thousands they don't they don't speak English they don't talk about they don't even know English and this is what's so interesting some people say well charlie do you really want to deport all these law-abiding They how about we start with the truck drivers 400,000
00:16:24.000of them They're taking jobs from native born Americans that otherwise could be doing this work How many black Americans Hispanic Americans and Caucasian Americans white Americans these are low-skilled jobs the last thing we need is a hundred thousand people from the third world when we talk about assimilation, that includes English.
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00:24:09.000We are presented with a neoconfederate situation.
00:24:14.000Yesterday, the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, went on and on and on bragging about how she's going to continue to defy federal orders, defy federal law enforcement and even harbor illegal aliens, which is in direct contradiction of federal law.
00:24:32.000It is long past time for us to empanel a grand jury and make a test case out of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
00:24:38.000She can run her mouth and run her mouth, but we will not put up with a neoconfederate fractionalization of this nation.
00:24:45.000This is Michelle Wu openly saying that she's going to defy Donald Trump in the city of Boston.
00:24:52.000It's long past time to empanel a grand jury and to arrest her.
00:26:09.000So you'll have a situation where local police in Boston will arrest an illegal alien who's a child predator.
00:26:15.000And ICE will then send what's called a detainer request or a hold request.
00:26:20.000And we'll say, don't release this person, hand them over to ICE, and we'll remove this child predator from our community.
00:26:27.000Instead, these sanctuary mayors will order the police department to ignore the federal request to set them free out of the jail, out of the prison.
00:26:39.000And they'll go back into the community.
00:26:46.000and then ICE has to spend weeks trying to scouring the community listen to that so you have a pedophile in Boston who is arrested ICE says hey we, we're going to remove him for you.
00:26:57.000And Boston says, no, we're on their team, not your team.
00:27:00.000This is happening thousands and thousands and thousands of times a day.
00:27:03.000This is also why cities will get raids.
00:27:07.000We do have federal supremacy in this country.
00:28:24.000But if you read the, I looked it up this morning, I was like, how is this possibly legal?
00:28:28.000In Murphy versus the NCAA and Prince versus the U.S. in 1997, it says that you cannot force city or states to use their own officers and jails for federal programs.
00:28:39.000But a city whose local police won't honor ICE requests should lose all federal funding immediately.
00:29:22.000We will bring you to your knees and invoke your surrender until we allow ICE to walk through Logan Park, to walk by the downtown streets of Boston block by block., house by house, person by person.
00:31:18.000You guys want to play hardball, all your little schools, Boston University, Boston College, University of Massachusetts, UMass Boston, Massachusetts, MIT, Harvard University, you've got more colleges per capita than any city in the nation cut them off say enough we're done go fund yourself boston college mit oh you don't want to anymore that's interesting all because they are harboring this problem the interior of the nation and let me go a step further some
00:31:50.000americans you know we had a dinner recently and some americans say you know charlie The ones that are working hard, we should let them stay here.
00:31:57.000Like Harbinger Singh, he was working hard.
00:31:59.000Harbinger Singh was working really, really hard.
00:32:03.000Harbinger Singh was driving trucks and he was quote unquote, not a criminal until he does an illegal U-turn.
00:32:10.000DUIs, you know, thousands and thousands of DUIs a month are by illegal aliens all across the country.
00:32:17.000Do we have the stomach to have one year of immigration law?
00:33:11.000Open up that grand jury investigation.
00:33:13.000If you are betraying America and actively a traitor against the United States, you should fear going to jail for 25 years, 40 years, for life.
00:34:02.000This is nothing to do with Article 10.
00:34:04.000This is nothing to do with the Tenth Amendment, which is hilarious because the Tenth Amendment, the Democrats have done everything they can to steamroll Tenth Amendment rights over the last couple decades.
00:34:13.000When it came to lockdowns or vaccine mandates or conscientious objectures, they wanted nothing to do with Tenth Amendments, but to protect alien and illegal invaders, all of a sudden they're super libertarian.
00:34:34.000You are going to be the one that we try this out on because I'm telling you you have reached too far you have crossed the line and dare I say to go back Michelle will what you are doing might be a harbinger for things to come all inspired by Harbinger Singh who killed three people in Florida a bridge too far a step too too too much in the distance and panel the grand jury cut the funds bring them to their knees and restore order because we are one nation and one people Thanks so much for listening everybody email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com Thanks so