California’s Democratic leaders have escalated their war against the Trump administration, taking action to hinder federal immigration enforcement efforts within the state.

‘They’re trying to intimidate our agents and scare them from doing their job.’

On Tuesday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced the launch of a new tool, which they claimed would “assist members of the public in sharing information with the California Department of Justice regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents and officers across the state.”

The now-live portal instructs residents to report “potentially unlawful activity” committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection agents, and National Guard soldiers.

Respondents are asked to provide details about the incident, including whether they were physically present or reporting on behalf of someone else, as well as the nature, location, and date.

The submission form allows individuals to upload up to five photos and five videos related to the incident.

Bonta accused President Donald Trump’s administration of “engaging in a campaign of terror and fear” by enforcing federal immigration laws.

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“From unmarked military-style vehicles to detainments that more closely resemble kidnappings, Californians are rightly concerned that federal agents may be crossing the line and abusing their authority. The president’s actions these past 10 months only lend support to this conclusion,” Bonta stated. “Let me be clear: Federal agents can enforce federal laws, and no one should interfere with them doing their job. But federal agents must also do so lawfully and in compliance with the Constitution.”

Bonta encouraged Californians to report potentially unlawful actions from federal agents to his office.

“We’re not going to stand by while anyone — including federal agents — abuses their authority in California,” Newsom said. “This new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law.”

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Newsom’s administration previously set aside roughly $50 million to file legal action against the Trump administration. Since Trump’s January inauguration, Bonta has filed 48 lawsuits against the federal government.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli, appointed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, responded to Bonta and Newsom’s new portal in a post on X.

“We have a portal too. People can report California state officials engaged in illegal activity at the following link: tips.fbi.gov,” Essayli wrote.

During an interview with Fox News, Essayli said, “They’re trying to intimidate our agents and scare them from doing their job. And it’s not gonna work.”

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The future of rideshare transportation is here — but no, the cars aren’t flying yet. Uber, in partnership with a company that specializes in autonomous vehicles, just launched its first service area in Texas.

On Wednesday, Uber announced that it will be launching fully autonomous robotaxis as part of its rideshare service. At launch, the robotaxis will be available in a 9-square-mile area from downtown to uptown Dallas, Turtle Creek, and Deep Ellum.

‘We’re proving how AVs and drivers can work side by side to make transportation more convenient, sustainable, and affordable for people everywhere.’

Avride, a self-described leader in the autonomous vehicle and delivery robot industries, modified Hyundai Ioniq 5 models to convert them to robotaxis.

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The press release noted that an “on-board specialist” will be monitoring behind the wheel at launch. The fully autonomous, driverless ride will roll out in the future.

“We’re excited to launch autonomous rides in Dallas with Avride, as we continue to build towards an increasingly electric and autonomous future,” Sarfraz Maredia, the head of autonomous mobility and delivery at Uber, told The Hill.

“With the world’s largest hybrid network, we’re proving how AVs and drivers can work side by side to make transportation more convenient, sustainable, and affordable for people everywhere,” Maredia continued.

Avride, a tech company originally affiliated with Russian giant Yandex, has also developed autonomous delivery robots. These robots have been rolled out in several places.

Asked about future plans, an Avride spokesperson told Return that the company will start with a smaller fleet and “expand to hundreds of Avride robotaxis across Dallas in the next few years.”

Return reached out to Uber for comment but has not yet received a response.

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Billions of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota have somehow gone to Somalia — including to Al-Shabaab — one of the worst terrorist groups in the world.

And Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey seems to care more about the feelings of the Somalian immigrants now under scrutiny than those of the taxpayers whose money has been stolen from them.

“We are here to respond to a number of credible reports from several media outlets relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community,” Frey said on December 2.

“To our Somali community, we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock-solid. Minneapolis is proud to be home to the largest Somali community in the entire country. They’ve been here for decades, in many instances. They’re entrepreneurs and fathers,” he continued.

“Is anybody arguing with this? Is anybody arguing with the Somali community? They are not coming in to target the Somali community. They are coming in to target the fraud that is happening in the Somali community,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck responds.

“He immediately jumps to race because that’s what that means. Once you start talking about a collective, ‘They’re coming after the Somali community,’” he mocks, “You know you’re into racism; you’re into some ism.”

Glenn points out that it’s actually “very reminiscent of Hitler.”

“That’s what he did. Everybody’s the same. Only the certain German elites, only the certain Germans with blue eyes and blond hair … can rule the world. That’s racism,” Glenn explains. “When you’re saying they’re coming after the Somali community, what you’re saying is, ‘Oh, well, they’re racists coming in.’ But what he’s actually saying is, ‘Look, we are lumping every Somali in our community as clean.’”

“That’s racism. Just like I can’t say every Somali is dirty. You send in teams of professionals to find out who’s involved in this. And I don’t care if they’re Somali or they’re the governor. If they broke the law, they need to go to jail,” he continues.

Frey went on to claim that fighting the fraud within the Somali community is “not American.”

“That’s not American. That’s not what we are about. And we’re going to do right by every single person in our cities,” Frey said, before going on to attempt — and fail — to speak in Somali.

“At least practice it in the mirror first,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere laughs.

“Why are you speaking Somalian to them?” Glenn asks. “Why? Have they not melted in?”

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OpenAI is providing millions of dollars to nonprofits, many of which openly promote race politics and gender ideology.

In September, the ChatGPT creators announced it would be injecting $50 million into nonprofits and “mission-focused organizations” that work “at the intersection of innovation and public good.”

‘The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.’

In order to be eligible, organizations must be a 501(c)(3) charity, located in the United States, and preferably have an annual operating budget above $500,000, but not more than $10 million. Simply put, OpenAI did not choose startups or struggling businesses.

On Wednesday, the AI company posted its lengthy list of recipients, stating that it had plans to distribute more than $40 million before the end of 2025.

First, OpenAI highlighted programs like a radio and digital media studio and a group that helps those with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

However, after about a dozen examples, OpenAI began listing organizations that operate with ethnicity-based missions.

This included STEM from Dance, which serves “young girls of color” across seven states. This also included Maui Roots Reborn, which provides “legal, financial, and social support to Maui’s immigrant and migrant” communities. This was followed by the Native American Journalists Association.

This was only the tip of the iceberg, though. The subsequent list of more than 200 entities included many other woke organizations as well as outright bizarre ones.

For example, the Transgender District Company out of Compton, California, is a literal district founded in the city in 2017 “by three black trans women — Honey Mahogany, Janetta Johnson, and Aria Sa’id — as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District. The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.”

As well, the Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia, California, has transgender programs to hold “space for trans and nonbinary individuals.”

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OpenAI is funding countless race-based organizations, with a particular focus on black women, for some reason.

Funding has been extended to groups like Black Girls Do Engineer Corporation (New York, Texas), the California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute, the Lighthouse Black Girl Project (Mississippi), and Women of Color On the Move (California, North Carolina).

Other strange organizations listed were focused simply on specific cultures, like the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, the Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc. (California), and the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc. (Michigan).

Some grant recipients were seemingly just political or legal groups, such as: California Association of African American Superintendents and Admin, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality-California (California,) and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which operates in almost every state.

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While youth centers, YMCAs, and science-based organizations are sprinkled into the mix, it seems that, politically, only progressive and liberal groups received funding.

None of the groups mentioned had a “right-wing,” “conservative,” or “Republican” focus.

The race-based initiatives did not include any “white” groups or those based on European nations either — not even Ukraine.

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One of the big three wireless carriers committed on Monday to ditching its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, AT&T’s Senior Executive Vice President David McAtee II stated that, after reviewing the company’s policies and relationships with external groups, he concluded that the “legal landscape governing diversity, equity, and inclusion (‘DEI’) policies and programs has changed.”

‘We believe in the importance of advocacy and inclusion of our many suppliers in every aspect of AT&T’s ecosystem.’

AT&T, which employs more than 110,000 individuals in the U.S., cited the Trump administration’s recent executive orders, Supreme Court rulings, and guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as reasons it had decided to alter its “employment and business practices to ensure that they comply with all applicable laws and related requirements.”

The company claimed that it has always supported “merit-based” employment opportunities.

“AT&T does not and will not have any roles focused on DEI. … We do not and will not use hiring quotas based on race, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristics,” the letter reads.

“Further, consistent with the current law, we removed training related to ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ as well as any references to it from our internal and external messaging and will ensure that future training is consistent with guidance released by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission addressing training that could facilitate discrimination in the workplace,” AT&T added.

A 2021 report in the City Journal claimed that AT&T once offered employee training titled “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror.” The resource called racism a “uniquely white trait,” adding that white people “are the sole reason [racism] has flourished for centuries.”

The company previously told the New York Post in 2021 that the mentioned resources were offered “on a voluntary basis” in an effort to “build a workplace that is civil, inclusive, and understanding.”

“Whether an employee uses these resources or not is up to them, and does not affect their annual performance rating,” a representative told the Post. “We have a long and proud history of valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion, and will continue to do so.”

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While AT&T claims it has ditched DEI for good, it still hosts a “Culture and Inclusion” page on its website that features a quote from the company’s vice president of culture and inclusion, Michelle Jordan.

According to Jordan’s LinkedIn page, she previously worked as AT&T’s “Chief Diversity Officer” but left the role in February 2025, approximately a month after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end DEI. In that position, which she held for roughly three years, she led the company’s “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts across the business, expanding equitable opportunities for our employees and the communities we serve, as part of how we generate equality for all.”

In November 2024, Jordan reportedly took on another role within AT&T as the vice president of culture and inclusion. In her current position, Jordan “leads initiatives that cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, ensuring all perspectives are valued and integrated into every aspect of the organization,” she writes.

“By championing programs that promote fairness and belonging, Michelle fosters an environment where innovation thrives, driving both employee engagement and business growth,” her LinkedIn reads.

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AT&T’s website also boasts that it is still committed to fostering an “inclusive culture” through its “Supplier Inclusivity program.”

“AT&T’s Supplier Inclusivity philosophy centers around our culture and values. We believe in the importance of advocacy and inclusion of our many suppliers in every aspect of AT&T’s ecosystem,” reads a quote from the company’s assistant vice president of supplier inclusivity and sustainability, Alexis Dennard.

Dennard’s LinkedIn states that in her role, she focuses on “empower[ing] minority-, women-, disabled, and veteran-owned businesses in the U.S. and worldwide.” Dennard reportedly has over 20 years of experience at AT&T and previously oversaw an employee newsletter that provided updates on “new initiatives in diversity and inclusion.”

AT&T and the FCC did not respond to a request for comment.

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President Donald Trump’s administration is honoring fallen National Guard member Spc. Sarah Beckstrom in the wake of her horrific murder just yards away from the White House grounds.

The White House lowered all flags on the grounds to half-staff on Thursday after Beckstrom succumbed to her wounds on November 27, Thanksgiving Day. The suspect is a CIA-linked Afghan national who allegedly shot her and fellow guardsman Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in Washington, D.C, the day prior.

Beckstrom was only 20 years old.

‘The Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States.’

The proclamation from Trump’s administration extended the honor to “all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, December 4, 2025.”

The flags will also be lowered at American embassies, legations, consular offices, and military facilities across the world.

RELATED: Trump to ‘permanently pause’ migration from third-world backwaters in wake of National Guard member’s grisly murder

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President Donald Trump announced on Nov. 27 that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” “remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,” and “deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

The announcement — which came hours after Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom’s death, allegedly at the hands of an Afghan, and days after the publication of a report detailing the extent of the corruption in Minnesota’s Somali community — enraged Democrats, open-border activists, and other radicals including Wajahat Ali, a former columnist at the Daily Beast and contributor to the New York Times.

‘We’re a breeding people — and the problem is you let us in in 1965.’

Ali launched into an anti-white, anti-MAGA tirade on a recent episode of his podcast, “The Left Hook,” suggesting that Trump’s proposed effort to rid the country of antipathetic foreign elements is a lost cause. In all his rage, however, the former Al Jazeera host appears to have unwittingly justified Trump’s plan as well as lent additional credibility to the so-called great replacement theory.

Early in his rant, Ali:

sang the praises of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the quota system that favored immigrants from Britain and Northern Europe and apparently enabled his fraudster Pakistani parents to migrate to the U.S.; ranted about past policies that prioritized the interests of native-born Americans over those of foreign-born interlopers;claimed that by “Western Civilization,” Trump is referring only to white Christians; defended the Afghan horde admitted into the United States without proper vetting by the Biden administration; andsuggested that National Guardsmen Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe were deployed in Washington, D.C., illegally when an Afghan allegedly shot them both.

After working himself up, Ali reached his central thesis: “We’re not going back. I want all the hatemongers who watch this — and I hope they do watch this because I know they hate-watch us — you’ve lost. You have lost. You lost. The mistake that you made is you let us in in the first place.”

“See, that’s the thing with brown people, and I’m going to say this as a brown person. There’s a lot of us. Like, a lot. There’s like 1.2 billion in India. There’s more than 200 million in Pakistan. There’s like 170 million in Bangladesh. Those are just the people there,” continued Ali.

“There’s a bunch of us, and we breed. We’re a breeding people — and the problem is you let us in in 1965.”

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Ali suggested that it comes down to a numbers game — that migrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, Asia, and Latin America can’t be removed en masse because they are too numerous and enjoy too strong a foothold in the U.S. owing to chain migration, miscegenation, and their fecundity.

‘Heritage is an enduring aspect of identity that a multiple-choice civics quiz cannot immediately overcome.’

After framing the immigration debate in racial and religious terms — making sure in the process to indicate that his Muslim religiosity is on the winning side of the equation — Ali characterized Trump supporters as “crazy-ass whites” and “white supremacists,” then suggested their survival was dependent upon imported minority populations and that their music, food, and culture “suck.”

Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck said in response to Ali’s rant, “People on the left like Wajahat just hate White people and they couldn’t be more clear about it. At this point it’s our fault if we keep importing this hatred, not his for telling the truth about it. Also people like him didn’t use DEI for equality, they used it for supremacy.”

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“Mass immigration is a form of revenge and conquest. Just ask Wajahat Ali,” wrote senior Federalist contributor Adam Johnston.

Conservative commentator Michael Knowles noted that Ali “perfectly exemplifies the problems of immigration. On the one hand, he’s a standard American lib: graduated Berkeley, bloviates in frivolous outlets, dresses sloppily, etc.”

“And yet,” continued Knowles, “he express[es] tribal hostility toward the native population of the country to which his parents fled. Almost as if, even in the best of circumstances, heritage is an enduring aspect of identity that a multiple-choice civics quiz cannot immediately overcome.”

Ali later suggested on X that he wasn’t anti-white but rather “just anti white supremacist.”

While Ali wants “hate-mongers” to “embrace the halal meat” and to abandon their efforts both to reform the American immigration system and to kick out bad actors, the Trump administration has already begun to take action on the president’s orders.

Joe Edlow, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, noted last week that at the direction of the president, he has “directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.”

USCIS has also paused all asylum decisions.

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In a Thanksgiving Day Truth Social post, President Trump didn’t just wish a happy holiday to the American people, but he took on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for his fraud scandal in classic, scathing Trump fashion.

“As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great state of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone,” Trump wrote.

“The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab … does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how ‘badly’ she is treated,” he added.

And when pressed on his comments by the media, President Trump stood his ground.

“In that same post, you mentioned Tim Walz, and you called him what many Americans do find an offensive word, uh, ‘retarded.’ Do you stand by that claim of calling Tim Walz ‘retarded’?” a reporter asked.

“Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him. Absolutely, sure. You have a problem with it?” Trump responded.

“You know what, I think there’s something wrong with him. Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into his state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia. We give billions of dollars to Somalia. It’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name, but it doesn’t function like a country,” he continued.

“Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz,” he added.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray is thrilled with Trump’s comments, cheering, “He’s right about that.”

“I love it,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in, adding, “Accurate too.”

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A rampant repeat offender has been accused of punching and then shoving an intellectually disabled man off a Chicago suburb train platform and upon the tracks below, seriously injuring the victim — and all over $1.

Tommie O. Carter, 39 — who law enforcement sources said has been arrested over 40 times in Cook County, Illinois — has been identified as the culprit, WGN-TV reported.

‘I am the victim!’

Forest Park officers were dispatched to the Harlem Blue Line stop just before 8:35 a.m. Monday for a report of a battery, the station said. Forest Park is a suburb just west of Chicago.

Officers found the 59-year-old victim lying on the train tracks, WGN said.

Prosecutors allege Carter approached the man and repeatedly asked him for a dollar, the station said, adding that the man replied that he had no money.

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Carter allegedly pushed the man to the ground, and he was able to get back up. Documents state the man walked to the train platform and Carter followed him.

He then struck the man in the head and pushed him from behind, causing the 59-year-old to fall to the tracks, prosecutors state. The man came “really close” to the electric third rail.

A train was approaching the station, but the train’s operator, who saw what happened, was able to stop the train in time. Authorities were able to cut off electricity to the rail so first responders could make the rescue.

Prosecutors said the alleged attack was captured on surveillance video, the station added.

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WGN reported that the victim — who suffered multiple fractures to his right knee and a fracture in his left knee — was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Officers approached Carter on the train platform after witnesses identified him, the station said, citing court documents.

But Carter refused to comply with officers’ orders and fought back as they were placing him in handcuffs, police told WGN.

Carter continued to tense up and tried to pull away from officers as they took him to a squad car, the station said, citing an incident report.

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As one officer was placing the suspect in the back seat, he turned his head and spit on the officer, hitting him in the forehead and side of his face.

After driving to the police department, as officers were trying to remove Carter from the squad car to bring him inside for processing, he allegedly began to spit again, hitting one officer in his arm, and hitting another in the face mask, left shoulder, and on his body-worn camera mounted on his uniform.

An incident report shows once Carter was in the station, he was irate at first, and then began to speak with officers. He claimed the victim initially grabbed him, which caused his jacket to rip, and said he pushed the man after he was grabbed.

“Carter then became increasingly hostile, spitting towards officers, throwing a wet toilet paper roll and wet T-shirt,” the incident report stated, according to the station.

Carter was charged with attempted murder and three counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, WGN reported.

He also shouted, “I am the victim!” and “Let me out of here!” during his detention hearing, the station said.

A judge denied a request from Carter’s attorney that he should be allowed on electronic monitoring, WGN noted.

What’s more, Carter was on pretrial release in connection with a case just last month in which he was charged with criminal damage to government supported property, criminal trespass, and assault, the station said.

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According to an arrest report, Carter entered the Citadel Center without authorization, and when asked to leave, he refused. After being taken into custody, he allegedly started kicking the door of the Chicago Police Department squad car and tried to spit on one of the officers.

Carter also has seven felony convictions on his record, including a 2023 case for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, in which he was sentenced to two years in the Illinois Department of Correction.

He has six other convictions on his criminal record, including retail theft, attempted armed robbery, and armed robbery.

A judge ordered Carter detained, the station said; his next court date is scheduled for Dec. 19.

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Wherever you’re reading this, your day almost certainly began on an American road. You might have driven your kids to day care, headed to work, or grabbed a coffee. Even cyclists rely on the same system. Those routines rest on one basic assumption: The people operating massive commercial vehicles are trained, vetted, and accountable.

The assumption is disintegrating because the country is still digging out from the chaos of the Biden administration’s border collapse. President Trump is trying to put the pieces back together, but the wreckage didn’t disappear overnight — and we see the consequences on our highways.

America’s highways shouldn’t become another casualty of Washington’s failures. Neither should American workers.

A recent tragedy in Florida makes the point. A 28-year-old man from India made an illegal U-turn on the turnpike and allegedly killed three people. He reportedly entered the United States illegally and still obtained a commercial driver’s license. In California, a 21-year-old — also allegedly in the country illegally — slammed his semi into stopped traffic on Interstate 10, killing three more. Authorities say he crossed the border in 2022 during the peak of the Biden administration’s open-border surge.

These cases aren’t flukes. They reflect a system that stopped taking seriously who gets behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound vehicle.

The incentives run in one direction. The trucking industry faces a driver shortage. Instead of raising wages and restoring what used to be a proud, middle-class profession, too many companies cut corners by hiring illegal labor willing to work for less. That choice endangers families on the highway and robs American truckers of the wages they earned by playing by the rules.

Every illegal driver creates two problems. First, a safety threat to everyone sharing the road. Second, downward pressure on American workers’ earnings. Flood the labor market with illegal labor, and you weaken the people who keep the country moving.

Trucking remains a central pillar of the American economy. Nearly everything in your home arrived on a truck. These jobs once supported families. They now absorb the fallout from policies that ignore the consequences of illegal hiring.

Fixing this requires basic seriousness. That means, at the very least, strict verification, no loopholes, and no more rubber-stamped licenses issued without proof of legal status. And no more pretending that illegal immigration leaves public safety and wages untouched.

RELATED: Truckers push back on driver-shortage ‘myth’ that has led to flood of foreigners in long-haul industry

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The country depends on trucking. The system works only when drivers are properly trained, thoroughly vetted, and in the country legally. It fails when policymakers encourage shortcuts and lower standards to satisfy an open-border ideology.

This debate isn’t abstract. It’s about safety. It’s about economic fairness. It’s about recognizing that border policy shapes everyday life — including the safety of your morning commute.

America’s highways shouldn’t become another casualty of Washington’s failures. Neither should American workers. Both deserve leaders willing to enforce the rules that keep this country safe and prosperous.

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