Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that all state truck weigh stations will now serve as federal immigration checkpoints, following a deadly Aug. 12 crash on Florida's Turnpike in which a truck driver in the U.S. illegally was accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people .

"There's no telling how many illegal aliens are in this country driving large commercial vehicles and putting American families in a safety risk every single day," Uthmeier said during a press conference Monday morning in Live Oak, a city north of Gainesville.

Uthmeier said he is sending a formal letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration urging the federal government to revoke commercial driver's license program auth

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