Transportation Secretary Slams States for Licensing Illegal Ailen Driver in Fatal U-Turn Crash

“Washington state should not have given him a license. They gave him a full-term CDL license just like he was a U.S. citizen. Shouldn’t have happened. But then he went to California and he got a non-domicile license. We’re going to investigate that…. In July, when this was in full effect, this driver was pulled over for speeding in New Mexico. And he can’t speak English, he can’t read road signs. And per our rule, he should have been taken off the road. New Mexico didn’t take him off the road. They let him drive away and get to Florida where he killed three people. So, again, we are going to investigate all of these states and we’re going to take appropriate action.”