Illegal Immigrant Trucker Carnage, Courtesy of President Biden

**Charlie Kirk** (0:00)
Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here, live from the bitcoin.com studio. The Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, joins us about drivers who can't speak English. It's a major problem. Or read English, email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, subscribe to our podcast, and become a member today, members.charliekirk.com. That is members.charliekirk.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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We are going to kick off the show today with a very special guest. It is the Secretary of Transportation. As we're continuing almost every day, we have a new Cabinet Secretary, Sean Duffy. Mr. Secretary, great to see you. Mr. Secretary, we're having you on under a story, during a story developing that is quite dark, and unfortunately, it seems as if it is a bigger problem than people realize. Essentially, we have a illegal alien, non-English understanding truck driving problem in this country. In Florida, there was a guy that was let into the country. His name is Harbinger Singh, or Harjinder, I guess. Harbinger also works deeply, darkly ironic, where Joe Biden let him in the country, gave him a works license, he got a commercial driver's license, was not able to read English, only got two out of 12 on his proficiency test. He 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. How common is this, Mr. Secretary? Why have we been putting up with it in years past?

**Sean Duffy** (2:00)
So 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. Again, we're concerned that we have too many people who have come into the country, they might have even gotten work permits, and they can't speak the language, and they're getting full term CDLs. That's exactly what Washington did for this driver, giving him a full term CDL. By the way, Charlie, that's reserved for American truck drivers, American citizens to have that full term CDL. And then California gave the same CDL to them as well when his Washington one expired. But here's the real problem. We came out in May and said, listen, English only, our English proficiency for truck drivers is critical for safety. And now some of the left gave us flow back and they gave us push back and they said we were being too harsh. They were anti-immigrant. And we said, no, no, this is about safety.
You have to be able as a truck driver to understand the road signs, but also if you're pulled over, you have to be able to communicate whether you're at a way station or with law enforcement. What's on your load? What are you carrying? Where are you going? Where are you coming from? You have to be able to communicate with law enforcement. And so this driver was pulled over in New Mexico last month in July, after our initiative was fully in the works, and they failed in New Mexico when they pulled him over for speeding to give him the English test. And had they done that, they would have put his vehicle out of service and taken him off the road. But because they didn't follow our directive, he went back on the road and was able to commit this horrific crash in Florida, taking three innocent lives with them. And so again, we're doing what we can at the DOT level. We have to ask for states to participate with us because driver's licenses are issued in the states. We are engaged in a full investigation. And through that, there are a number of issues based on that kind of investigation that we can take to inflict some pain to guarantee that our states are complying with federal law and regulation.

**Charlie Kirk** (4:10)
And just to be clear also, you need to be able to communicate on a two-way radio.
If you're driving a rig, you have to be able to know where are we going? So he can't read the road signs, he can't talk to police, he 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. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of these all across the country. And anecdotally, I think a lot of people in the audience would agree that driving on our highways, it feels much more dangerous. I mean, you have semi-trucks gone all over the place, and now it makes sense because we have a bunch of foreigners that have not passed our driving test. This guy did not even pass the test adequately. So, and if his English was so bad, how did these cops just let him go in New Mexico? How do you communicate during a traffic stop? Do you have any insight into that, Mr. Secretary?