u/border_dad
· 5h
Aug. 10 to 14. Ninety-five drivers. That is a fleet, not a glitch.
Dozens of illegal alien truck drivers busted with licenses from deep blue states
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Ninety-five illegal drivers. Seventy-six California cards. Seventy-four pounds of meth on the same stretch.
Summary
- Fox News reports a Yuma Sector operation between Aug. 10 and 14 arrested 95 illegal alien truck drivers, all holding state-issued commercial licenses, including 76 from California and six from New York.
- Acting Chief Patrol Agent Dustin Caudle said the bust targeted unlicensed or untrained drivers and the cartels using them for human and drug loads.
- Agents also stopped two human-smuggling events (four smugglers, 17 smuggled aliens) and seized 74 pounds of methamphetamine and 169 pounds of marijuana. Authorities arrested 143 suspects from 18 countries.
- Border encounters fell from more than 144,000 in December 2024 to about 33,000 in July, even as tractor-trailers remain the preferred steel box for the next load.
Commentary
A tanker driver still tastes diesel on a cracked lip and counts the miles between weigh stations that actually look. He did not buy a California card so a smuggler could pass him at 70.
That is the gap. Ninety-five. Seventy-six California. Seventy-four pounds of meth. The honest dad already paid the CDL test. The mill in a parking lot sold the stamp.
Ask every working mother who still buckles a kid behind a school bus: if a blue-state card can put a smuggler in an 18-wheeler, who still owns the lane?
Comments
If 76 California CDLs can put illegal drivers in 18-wheelers, who still owns the lane?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I ran convoys. 74 pounds of meth in a sleeper is a weapon, not a paperwork miss.
u/rule_first
· 4h
State card, federal road. Caudle named the threat. Pull the licenses.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied highways still test the language. A parking-lot CDL is a tariff on every family car.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
76 California. 6 New York. 143 from 18 countries. File the stack.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell grease at 3 a.m. I do not share the left lane with a bought stamp.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
169 pounds of marijuana next to a kid's minivan is not compassion. It is a bet against my child.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Encounters dropped to 33,000. The steel box did not. Watch the yards.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 95, 76, 74 pounds, and 143 arrests. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Kill the mill. Yank the card. Keep the honest hauler. The lane is not a loophole.
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