Democrats may have won both houses of Congress, but President Trump still runs the executive branch, and former NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro argues in a Fox News op-ed that he should use it on a problem that is killing Americans on the roads: foreign drivers who should never have been licensed.
Mauro opens with Ryan O'Shea, a 21-year-old University of New Haven hockey captain studying criminal justice, who was killed Oct. 16 when a pickup driving the wrong way on Interstate 91 hit his car head-on. Police say the other driver was a Mexican national whom DHS says had already been deported twice.
He lists other deadly crashes involving foreign drivers holding state-issued commercial licenses, and points to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's audit, which found that more than half of New York's commercial trucking licenses reviewed went to illegal drivers and that California issued 25% of its CDLs unlawfully.
Duffy's new "Joint Task Force Crossroads of America" has already opened criminal investigations. But Mauro says stopping at commercial licenses is a mistake, because the man accused of killing O'Shea didn't have one. "Somewhere in the DMV systems of our states there are officials issuing licenses to applicants who not only likely couldn't pass the driver's tests we've all taken — they cannot even read the exam," he writes.
His case: this is squarely federal executive territory. "Our newly woke Congress can bemoan investigating it… but Congress cannot stop it." And it opens another front on immigration enforcement that doesn't depend on high-profile ICE sweeps.
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