Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he has blocked the award of new visas that would enable migrants to legally or illegally drive 18-wheeler trucks on American highways.

“Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers,” he announced Thursday evening. “The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.”

The announcement is a useful admission by the agency that many migrants get U.S. jobs after getting temporary visas from the State Department. This inflow of legalized economic migrants is usually ignored in the uproar over illegal migration — but it also has a huge and damaging impact on Americans’ wages, producti

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