How is this even possible?

This is where it becomes more interesting in my eyes with the asylum seekers. Went from 150K to 300K normal application to over 1.3MIL applications. And of course the information is not all correct. I would bet this is on the very low end.

• 2024: ~1,300,000 applications (estimated based on trends and partial data; 70,549 credible fear findings by USCIS). 54,350 individuals granted asylum (excluding derivatives like family members).

• 2023: 945,000 applications (456,750 affirmative, 488,620 defensive). Grants not fully reported, but significant increase from 2022.

• 2022: 503,800 applications (approximate; 730,400 claims reported in calendar year 2022, a threefold increase from 2021). 35,720 granted asylum.

• 2021: ~243,000 applications (estimated; 17,700 granted asylum, a 43% decrease from 2020). Backlog reached ~1.1 million cases.

• 2020: ~300,000 applications (estimated; 31,000 granted asylum, a 61% decrease from 2019). Processing slowed due to COVID-19.

• 2019: ~350,000 applications (estimated; 45,900 granted asylum). Surge driven by Venezuelan and Central American applicants.

• 2018: ~300,000 applications (estimated; grants not fully reported). Increase due to Latin American migration.

• 2017: ~250,000 applications (estimated; grants not fully reported).

• 2016: ~200,000 applications (estimated; grants not fully reported).

• 2015: ~150,000 applications (estimated; grants not fully reported).

 

Has anyone mentioned that one of reasons that trucking is attractive to “guest workers” is because that sleeper bunk is waaay nicer than the plywood/tarp abode that they are used to……..and it’s free! Any other job, and they would have to arrange/pay for housing costs. They aren’t motivated by becoming acclimated to our culture and in doing so, they bring the lifestyle standards of trucking down with them. They contribute little to our economy as they leave and take their earnings with them when their little house of cards collapse (unless they can get another fake ID and come back).

 

How do they get an insurance?
How do they pass the safety audit?
65 of 1346 is close to 5%.
5% of 3.5 million drivers is 175,000.
Something is very wrong here.

 

The “Deporter in Chief” fixed the problem by requiring “asylum seekers” to apply from their home country..this is what stopped the rush to our southern border. This actually worked..

Now some Bozo came along and undid that and the masses flooded the border again. Once at the border they had to be taken in and given a hearing with a judge.

I’ll leave it at that

 

I'm assuming your referencing the elp oos numbers from Wyoming.

Yes, 5% of the trucks inspected were put oos for elp violations. That does not mean that 5% of all trucks are driven by people who cant pass an elp test.

If 1,000 trucks pass a weigh station every day, and every day that weigh station inspects 50 trucks, then only 5% of trucks get inspected. 5% of 5% of 3.5 million is less than 9,000.

But it's all meaningless because we don't know how many trucks are actually going through.

 

Your math is obviously wrong. If 1000 trucks pass the weigh station, 50 are inspected, and 5% fail, it means 5%×50×20=50 trucks would fail if all 1000 trucks were inspected.

And I talk about people without a valid CDL, not ELP violations.

 

“The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to make an additional 64,716 H-2B visas available for the 2025 fiscal year, potentially offering trucking companies more options to fill empty seats in their trucks.”


Lol, Montana, how could you

“Last year’s data shows interesting regional patterns in H-2B driver hiring. Montana emerged as a leading state for employing H-2B drivers, followed by Florida and Massachusetts.”

https://truckparkingclub.com/news/u...Homeland Security,empty seats in their trucks.

 

Wait, what?

Texas doesn’t/won’t enforce ELP.. English proficiency isn’t required to get a CDL. Sounds like Texans dgaf

 

Nobody GAF anymore. That's the real problem. This will never be fixed at the ballot box.

 

Sugar mill around here looking for 250 day cabs for this years harvest.
Need more butts for the seats.
Hey these drivers live better than the i-10 flip floppers in the two plate trucks.
12 hour days 7 days a week with food and housing.
Direct deposit back to South of the border family.
No CDLs and No speak the English either.
No hanging dingle berries maybe a native flag in back window a CB and some are putting the shine on them old SWMF LTL trucks. Not a bunch of broke down junk running through the cane fields.