(The Center Square) \u2013 The state of Florida has filed a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against the states of California and Washington, sayinga damage has been caused as a result of granting commercial driver\u2019s licenses to people illegally living in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth states routinely frustrate and hinder federal law enforcement from addressing the immigration crisis and the destruction that accompanies it,\u201d says the Florida petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction in legal conflicts between states.<\/p>\n
The petition says California and Washington have been granting commercial driver\u2019s licenses to people without legal documentation to be in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cFederal law requires that states issuing CDLs abide by relevant safety and immigration status standards,\u201d Florida\u2019s petition states. \u201cCalifornia and Washington, however, chose to ignore these standards and authorize illegal immigrants without proper training or the ability to read road signs to drive commercial motor vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n
That resulted in \u201cmayhem\u201d in other states that do follow the laws on commercial driver\u2019s licenses, Florida\u2019s petition states.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida is the most recent victim,\u201d according to the petition. \u201cJust a few weeks ago, an illegal immigrant \u2013 licensed by both Washington and California \u2013 attempted a reckless U-turn across a busy Florida highway in an eighteen-wheeler.\u201d<\/p>\n
The driver could neither read or speak English, Florida said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe result was three fatalities and a flurry of costly preventative measures by Florida to limit the dangerous and improperly licensed drivers from threatening its roads and its citizens,\u201d Florida\u2019s petition states.<\/p>\n
It asks the Supreme Court to declare the actions of California and Washington an \u201cactionable public nuisance,\u201d and to issue injunctions against the two states from continuing to issue such licenses to people illegally in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame,\u201d Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Sean Hannity. \u201cHere in Florida, we can do everything right. We can enforce the law. We can combat illegal immigration. But we still suffer when Gavin Newsom and liberals on the West Coast allows these illegals in, encourage them and enable them. And then cross the country and take lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Center Square was unsuccessful prior to publication of getting comment from California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013 The state of Florida has filed a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4535,7216,28,30,29,8234,8236,8235,3474,6413],"class_list":{"0":"post-7846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-commercial-drivers-licenses","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-illegal-immigrants","14":"tag-illegal-immigration","15":"tag-petition-states","16":"tag-u-s-supreme-court","17":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}