In September, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy demanded that California end its policy of issuing commercial driver's licenses to undocumented individuals, but a Bay Area trucking company says it could have a serious impact on places like the Port of Oakland.

Bill Aboudi owns the AB Trucking Company and says the majority of drivers in the area come from other countries.

"I would say, in the port business, 90 percent, comfortably," he said. "90 percent are immigrants."

Aboudi said most are here legally now, but, just like him, it took years, sometimes decades, for them to gain citizenship or permanent residency.

"Think of us as little ants," he said. "We just work, and we don't bother anybody. We just want to get our job done, and we want to go home. We want to have a good life."

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