(CNN) — The State Department is pausing the issuing of work visas for foreigners looking to become commercial truck drivers in the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday .

“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,” Rubio said in a post on X.

The post did not elaborate further on reasons for the move. It comes after the US Department of Transportation said it was investigating a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that caused a wreck and killed three people on Florida’s Turnpike August 12. Federal authorities allege he entered the US illegally.

The driver, 28-year-old Harjinder Singh , had a commerci

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