(NewsNation) — The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday that it is delaying the cancellation of thousands of migrant truck driver licenses.
The announcement means approximately 17,000 migrant truck drivers won’t have their commercial licenses revoked on Jan. 5. Instead, they can remain on the roads and will have another two months to re-test and re-apply.
The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which announced in November 2025 that it would compel California to revoke thousands of what it calls “illegally issued” non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses.
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A nationwide audit revealed “systemic policy, procedural, and programming errors in California’s non-domiciled CDL program, which allowed thousands of CDLs to be illegally issued to foreign drivers,” according to the DOT…