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#news DMV employees arrested for selling Commercial Driver's Licenses to more than 1,000 Illegal Migrants / Non-citizens in a major driver's license fraud scheme.#florida Eight employees for the DMV were arrested for selling the licenses to illegal migrants without making them go through testing, training or vetting. They accepted cash payments to bypass the mandatory requirements, such as written tests, skills tests, and proof of residency or legal presence.The more than 1,000 Non-Domicile CDLs were allegedly sold from a single DMV office.Florida’s Attorney General’s office described the operation as “corruption tied to illegal immigration.”A Non-Domicile CDL is a commercial driver’s license issued by a state to individuals not domiciled in that state - meaning people who do not have their primary legal residence or permanent home in the state - so illegal migrants / non-citizens who don't even live in the state of Florida were being issued CDL's without having to go through any requirements.In this case, the licenses were allegedly issued to illegal migrants / non-citizens without verifying eligibility, legal presence, or driving competency.This violates federal and Florida state requirements, which mandate proof of residency for first-time CDL applicants.American Truckers United sent out a warning about this very issue four months ago, alleging that Florida was one of 10 states (including California, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania) “flooding the trucking industry with illegal foreign labor.”They asserted that the scheme is part of a broader nationwide problem, with DMVs in multiple states issuing CDLs to illegal migrants en masse, potentially to undercut American truckers by providing cheaper labor.Many are now pointing to an incident in March of this year where 37-year-old Solomun Weldekeal Araya crashed his Semi-Truck into 17 vehicles in Austin Texas.Araya’s tractor-trailer, ws carrying goods for Amazon, failed to slow down.