{"id":62945,"date":"2026-02-23T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62945"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:21:05","slug":"the-corruption-runs-deep-and-is-not-localized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62945","title":{"rendered":"The Corruption Runs Deep And Is Not Localized"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Just the News<\/a> posted an article about commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) issued in Illinois. I would like to note that Just the News is one of the few unbiased investigative news sources on the internet.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Illinois official whose agency issued potentially thousands of illegal licenses to truckers, received more than $300,000 in donations from the trucking industry in recent years. The Illinois Secretary of State, Alexi Giannoulias, is in a standoff with the Trump Transportation Department over its review of the state\u2019s commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) which found that 1-in-5 licenses issued by Giannoulias\u2019 office were done so illegally.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giannoulias, a Democrat who is reportedly considering a run for Chicago mayor, is facing scrutiny over his office\u2019s role in issuing those licenses from the Trump administration\u00a0after a series of high profile big rig crashes<\/a> across the country that exposed issues in how states issue non-domiciled CDLs to foreign citizens, or in some cases, to illegal immigrants.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Illinois,\u00a0the U.S. Transportation Department found<\/a> the Secretary of State\u2019s Office, through the Director of Driver Services, issued illegal CDLs, in some cases, to individuals who have failed to provide evidence of lawful presence, let alone proficiency in managing big rigs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In August, an illegal immigrant driver made an illegal u-turn on the Florida Turnpike<\/a> in his 18-wheeler truck, causing a crash that left three dead, the Homeland Security Department said. The immigrant was identified as Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before the fatal crash in Florida, Singh reportedly\u00a0failed his CDL driver\u2019s test 10 times<\/a>, before finally being granted a license in 2023 in Washington State, according to\u00a0Fox News<\/em>. Instructors also noted a lack of English proficiency, with video evidence showing Singh struggled to speak English with police in the wake of the crash.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Transportation Department\u2019s audits in other states also uncovered what it says is \u201csystemic non-compliance in issuing non-domiciled CDLs.\u201d In California, the department\u2019s\u00a0audit found<\/a> that \u201cmore than 25% of non-domiciled CDLs reviewed were improperly issued.\u201d In New York State, it found that\u00a0more than half<\/a> of non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal law. In Colorado, the\u00a0fraction was 22%<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

These findings led the administration to pull federal funding until the states remedy the license issuing process to prevent such failures. Secretary Duffy\u2019s agency\u00a0issued a final rule<\/a> last week that would prevent foreign drivers from receiving a non-domicile CDL without undergoing a consular and interagency screening.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ending the fraud in CDL licensing will make the roads safer for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Just the News posted an article about commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) issued in Illinois. I would like to note that Just the News is one of the few unbiased investigative news sources on the internet. The article reports: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18446,147,12498,19174],"class_list":["post-62945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commercial-truck-driving-license-cdl","tag-illinois","tag-just-the-news","tag-u-s-transportation-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62946,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945\/revisions\/62946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}