What happens to a driver who crossed the border illegally, went through a fake school, worked a 20-hour shift, and caused a fatal crash? Shannon Everett of American Truckers United tells guest host Robert McNeily the answer is usually a misdemeanor, or nothing. America is a high-trust society, and no lawmaker ever imagined a couple hundred thousand unqualified, unmonitored illegal alien truck drivers on the interstate, so no statute was ever written for this case. Everett works with the families, and tells the story of Deanne Miller of Colorado: the driver who killed her husband, Scott, had already entered the country 16 times and was deported a 17th time after the crash.
The fix will not come from Washington, Everett says, where multibillion-dollar brokerages have influence; it will come from a grassroots push in the states for criminal statutes and for the end of reciprocity with states that broke the deal. Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky honor each other's commercial licenses because they follow the same rules. When California or New York takes it upon itself to issue commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens, those states have broken the trust, and other states should stop honoring their non-domiciled CDLs. Issue all the licenses you want, Everett tells California, but keep those drivers on your own roads.
In this clip:
• Are there laws waiting for the hammer to drop?
• A high-trust society never imagined this
• No criminal statute for the driver who causes a fatal crash
• Deanne Miller: 16 entries, deported a 17th time
• Why the change has to come from the states
• End CDL reciprocity with California and New York
Read H.R. 5688, Delilah's Law, and call 202-224-3121 to ask your representative when it gets a floor vote. Watch the full episode at jennybethshow.com and learn more at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — Are there laws waiting for the hammer to drop?
00:42 — Advocating for the crash victims' families
00:58 — A high-trust society never imagined this
01:12 — No criminal statute written for this driver
01:44 — Deanne Miller: in the country 16 times, deported a 17th
02:08 — Criminal charges need a grassroots push in the states
02:38 — Reciprocity: California and New York broke the trust
03:16 — Keep those drivers in your own state
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