Arizona's Yuma Sector bust netted 95 illegal alien truck drivers with state-issued CDLs, seizing methamphetamine and marijuana in smuggling crackdown.
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DOT teases 'unprecedented' fraud crackdown weeks after dozens of truckers caught driving on out-of-state licenses.
“The announcement comes after the fraud, not before it, and that order is the whole story: the crackdown is press conference, the busted licenses are receipts, and the receipts were already public before anyone stood at a podium to take credit for finding them.”
“This is an unprecedented fraud crackdown, restoring integrity to the licensing system — it is not, whatever the timing looks like, an admission the system was broken. Well, dozens of truckers were driving on out-of-state licenses, so — fine, the system had a gap. But we caught it. That's the story.”
The receipts
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy teases ‘unprecedented fraud crackdown’ announcement with DHS, DOJSecretary of Transportation Sean Duffy on Sunday teased an upcoming announcement about the Trump administration's fraud crackdown.
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Duffy teases 'unprecedented fraud crackdown' announcement with DHS, DOJSecretary of Transportation Sean Duffy teased a multi-agency fraud crackdown involving DHS, DOJ and ICE that is set to be announced on Monday.
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