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Okay... TINFOIL HAT ALERT...

Didn’t a few FReepers discuss this very scenario back a couple years ago? How many foreign-born people are now truck drivers?
What if Johnny Jihad wanted to do some damage and he (or others) rigged a tanker truck full of fuel to explode at an important industrial OR highly populated area?

This is looking more suspicious by the minute.

Back when DHS was being run by half serious people, there were a bunch of initiatives related to vetting truckers/haz mat drivers. In 2007 some states agreed to begin working with the feds—

Enhanced Driver’s Licenses: DHS signed agreements with the states of Washington, Vermont, New York, and Arizona to enhance the security of their state driver’s licenses and potentially satisfy REAL ID requirements or serve as alternatives for entry at land and sea borders.

There was also some insurance-driven tech being looked at, GPS, remote security and such. Merchant marine and truck drivers were areas of concern.

Here's an extra layer of foil.

Open top flatbed semi, with mortar/rpg crews, attacking Pasadena TX refineries from I-10. They could cripple us in minutes.

We are not at war with isSlime, but it has been at war with us for 1200 years before we were a nation!

I see your point of view and raise you. I transport hazardous waste in the western states and more and more, I'm seeing foreign born people driving trucks hauling gasoline, fuel, fertilizer and hazardous waste. The federal and state governments are making it very difficult for legal citizens to keep their drivers’ licenses by making new laws involving moving violations and citations for mechanical problems.
The feds have just enacted a new point system for commercial drivers. They are going back two years for simple fix it tickets and have determined a point system that will get a driver either fired from his/her company for just one speeding ticket or the companies’ insurance company just won't cover that driver anymore.
I don't totally understand the whole system yet but I know if the feds are enacting it, it won't be good.
There is also a problem with police stopping more company and owner operator trucks from this country than trucks coming from across the borders. The police know that if a citizen of the United States gets a ticket, they are more likely to receive the money from that driver than if a foreign driver is ticketed. Foreign drivers are more apt to either not pay the ticket, abandon the truck red tagged by the police or just come back into the states with a different license.
People's safety is a main concern to most drivers and Joe Citizen better be looking in their rear view mirrors hoping the truck's license plates are not from Mexico.