New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia\u2019s invasion<\/p>\n
Karina Krainova, who worked as a trucker in the US after fleeing Russia<\/a>\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, where she is from, rushed to the closest motor vehicle\u2019s office last fall, just days after the US transportation department tightened<\/a> commercial driver\u2019s license requirements for immigrant drivers like her.<\/p>\n She was already afraid of being deported back to Ukraine<\/a> as the war rages on. She had entered the United States legally in 2024 under a Biden administration<\/a> program that granted hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians a safe haven.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia\u2019s invasion Karina Krainova, who worked as a trucker in the US after fleeing Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, where she is from, rushed to the closest motor vehicle\u2019s office last fall, just days after the US transportation department tightened commercial driver\u2019s license requirements … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}