The trucking industry is America’s arteries, hauling essential goods across the country to make our lives easier.
Yet greed, human trafficking and illegal labor have clogged our nation’s arteries for years, resulting in the theft of wages from traditionally working-class US jobs to the deaths of innocent Americans caught in this systemic failure.
When we discuss illegal immigration, we usually mention industries like agriculture, construction and manual labor in warehouses.
But the supposedly heavily regulated trucking industry has become a hot spot for illegal labor.
America suddenly got a peek at this after the horrific Aug. 12 crash on Florida’s Turnpike that killed three people.
Indian-born tractor-trailer driver Harjinder Singh, 28, is in the country illegally and can’t speak English yet possessed a non-domicile commercial driver’s license from California.
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