(The Post Millennial)—Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday that the Trump administration would pause “all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.” This follows a crash in Florida where a commercial truck driver using licenses obtained from California and Washington state made an illegal left hand turn off the highway and killed three people. He was charged with vehicular homicide.
“Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers,” Rubio said. “The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.”
Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025
CDL Life reported in December 2024 that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security had opened nearly 65,000 H-2B visas for the fiscal year, which includes visas for truckers. That number about doubles the total number of that kind of visa for the fiscal period that ends in September 2025.
“There are employers across the country that would suffer greatly without H-2B workers. Authorizing these supplemental visas helps U.S. employers fill those positions,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement at the time.
“It helps fuel our economy and reduce irregular migration while also providing a safe and lawful pathway to the United States for noncitizens who are prepared to work.”
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