BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Sikh and Indian truck drivers in Kern County say they are being unfairly targeted as federal changes threaten to revoke commercial driver's licenses from immigrants who have green cards and work visas.

Last month, the Trump administration tightened rules on who can get a commercial driver's license. Of nearly 200,000 visa-holding truck drivers, only about 10,000 would keep their licenses under the new regulations. The move follows a highly publicized deadly August crash in Florida involving an Indian driver.

"The right-wing media has obsessed over accidents involving specifically Sikh drivers, cherry picking tragedies to paint a false and dangerous picture that brown people with turbans are a threat to public safety," Assemblywoman Dr. Jasmeet Bains said.

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