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Truckers will have to take test in English amid CDL crackdown

(NewsNation) — The Trump administration is expanding an effort to ensure all truckers understand English well enough to read road signs and communicate with law enforcement.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday that all truckers and pass drivers will have to take their commercial driver’s license test in English. The announcement comes on the heels of two fatal Indiana crashes allegedly involving people in the country illegally.

The Trump administration has been aggressively pursuing the campaign, recently threatening to withhold funding for Illinois, saying the state has illegally issued CDLs.

A letter to the state cited more than a dozen cases of drivers from countries including Ukraine, Russia and Venezuela being given a CDL after their lawful presence in the U.S. expired or where Illinois didn’t verify the drivers were here legally.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias (D) said the state’s policies are in compliance with federal law.

While commercial drivers are required to demonstrate proficiency with the English language, many states allow them to take the test for their CDL in other languages.

Duffy said states have also hired companies to administer the tests, and those companies have not complied with federal standards.

“And the third-party tester is participating in the scam because they are not adequately testing the people who went through a sham school,” he said.

Earlier this week, the Transportation Department said 557 driving schools should close because they failed to meet basic safety standards. And the department has been aggressively going after states that handed out commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants who shouldn’t have qualified for them ever since a fatal crash in August.

A truck driver, who Duffy says wasn’t authorized to be in the U.S., made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people.

The recent deadly crashes in the Hoosier State have also been attributed to people in the country illegally.

In one, police said Bekzhan Beishekeev, 30, failed to stop for another slowed semi, causing a crash that killed three people. Beishekeev was handed over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after being arrested.

In another case, a semi ran a red light and hit a Chevy truck, killing one person.

In a statement to NewsNation, the DHS said the truck driver was in the U.S. illegally.

“This tragedy comes less than two weeks after another illegal alien driving a semi-truck killed four innocent people in Indiana,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement. “It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads.”

“These tragedies are 100% preventable and we pray for the family and victim,” she added.

NewsNation’s Brooke Shafer and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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