TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced a lawsuit against California and Washington State, claiming that their policies enabling illegal immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses are unconstitutional and pose a public safety threat.
This lawsuit comes in the wake of a crash on the Turnpike in St. Lucie County a few months ago, where an illegal immigrant named Harjinder Singh, allegedly driving without the ability to read road signs or understand English, made an illegal U-turn, resulting in a crash that killed three Haitian-Americans living in the U.S. under temporary protected status.
Singh possessed commercial driver’s licenses from both California and Washington, which were obtainable due to California’s policy of granting licenses to undocumented individuals, per officials…