ICE officers deploy at truck weigh stations
By: Trevor Hughes
USA Today
..... The Trump administration has deployed immigration offices to trucker safety and weight inspection stations around the country, citing a series of fatal crashes, involving improperly licensed truck drivers.
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Federal officials say states have already revoked more than 28,000 commercial driver's licenses issued to people who lacked legal permission to live and work in the country.
..... Now, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are helping determine whether truckers have work or residency permission, and whether they meet longstanding regulations requiring English-langugae proficiency.
..... The Trump administration cited multiple fatal crashes involving improperly licensed drivers as justification for the new effort. On July 1, [2026] a Pennsylvania state trooper was killed by a truck driven by a Haitian man whom federal officials said was working illegally.
..... Trump also feature a young truck crash victim, Dalilah Coleman, a this February 24 [2026] State of the Union address, saying she was hit by an improperly licensed driver.
..... "This administration is determined tor id our trucking industry of unvetted and unqualified foreign drivers who fail to abide by the rules of our roads," U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Danna Almeida told USA today. "We will sue every tool at our disposal to safeguard our roads and ensure the safety of American families and truckers."
..... Some migrant rights groups say tough trucker enforcement will drive up costs for consumers if thousands of drives are forced off the roads, and that the striker enforcement is fraught with the risk of racial profiling.
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Department of Homeland Security officials cited operational security in declining to release additional details about where ICE officers are working alongside state truck inspectors or how many have been assigned.
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Border czar Tom Homan said Democratic-run states continue to refuse access to licensing data, which they control. Some states issue driver's licenses to people who lack legal permission to live in the United States, including ccommercial licenses.
..... "There's just a lot of these people to find, but we're out there every day looking for them," Homan said July 7 [2026] on Fox News.
..... "We've got a lot of people we're looking for. In some states, we're actually working weight stations with the troopers, trying to get these people as they're coming through."
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Homan's comments came a week after Pennsylvania Trooper Michael Pahira was hit at a truck driven by Michael Bon.
..... Bon entered the United States in 2024 and requested but never received Temporary Protected Status as a Haitian refugee, DHS said. Nevertheless, Bon got a commercial driver's license in Massachusetts, federal officials said. Phaira's funeral was July 8. [2026]
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Bon faces vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter charges ion Pennsylvania.
..... On July 5, [2026] a University of Massachusetts student died after a trucker rammed into the back of his car on Interstate 71 on Ohio; DOT officials said the trucker couldn't speak or read English, and troopers had to use Google Translate to communicate with him.