Court blocks new Transportation Department rules targeting immigrant commercial drivers Politics Nov 14, 2025 1:35 PM EST

The Transportation Department’s new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus have been put on hold by a federal appeals court.

The court in the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the rules Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced in September a month after a truck driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people can’t be enforced right now.

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The court said the federal government didn’t follow proper procedure in draftin

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