President Trump: For many years, American highways and roadways have been terrorized by unqualified illegal aliens, dangerously driving big rigs, semi trucks, and tractor-trailers, all because radical-left maniacs at the state level have issued them commercial drivers licenses, even though they're not entitled to have them; they don't speak the language, for the most part. Many of these illegal aliens don't even come close. They don't want to learn the language, they don't care about the language, and they don't speak it. They don't speak English, they cannot read basic road signs. In many cases, they've engaged in reckless driving that has caused many, many preventable deaths…Last year alone, illegal aliens with commercial drivers licenses caused at least thirty deaths, and many, many very seriously injured. As president, I made it our official policy to enforce English language requirements for truck drives, and support American truckers on American roadways. We've already removed more than twenty-four thousand non-English speakers from behind the wheel. We've also forced states to cancel more than twenty-eight thousand commercial drivers licensees unlawfully issued to illegal aliens.

President Trump: As we get illegal aliens off the roads today, we're also taking action to replace these unqualified migrant truck drivers with highly-qualified American Veterans. Under our brand-new 'Freedom Haulers Initiative', any American who has driven a heavy truck for our military will automatically be eligible for a commercial drivers license.