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A joint traffic enforcement blitz along I-40 in western Oklahoma led to the arrest of 120 immigration violators—91 of whom were operating commercial vehicles. The arrests underscore the public safety risks posed by unlicensed or unauthorized drivers on America’s highways. The three-day operation, conducted by ICE and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, targeted criminal activity and threats to roadway safety through intensified patrols and records checks.

The American trucking industry is facing numerous underreported challenges that directly impact national security, supply chain integrity, and road safety, among other critical issues that were exacerbated by the Biden administration’s open-border crisis.

While the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation, under the leadership of Secretary Sean Duffy, has already moved to address some of the many challenges related to the issuance of commercial driver’s licenses, often referred to as CDLs, the American public remains largely unaware of the extent of those looming dangers from years of insufficient oversight in this area.

An illegal immigrant carrying a New York state commercial driver’s license with “NO NAME GIVEN” listed as his name was arrested by ICE in Oklahoma, according to DHS. The agency said that it has been working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation as well as state and local law enforcement to get illegal truck drivers off American highways following the high-profile accident involving Indian illegal Harjinder Singh. Working with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ICE arrested another Indian illegal alien named Anmol Anmol. DHS said that Anmol was carrying a New York commercial driver’s license on which his first name was listed as “NO NAME GIVEN.”

In a joint dragnet operation, the Colorado State Patrol and the Wyoming Highway Patrol on Sept. 30 placed 16 drivers and 24 vehicles out of service for a variety of violations of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules. In addition, four arrests were made; Wyoming troopers arrested two commercial vehicle drivers for repeated offenses of driving without a CDL, and one for repeated violations of the ELP rule. Colorado troopers arrested one commercial driver who was subject to a statewide warrant. In addition, one driver received a marijuana citation.

A Texas Representative has introduced a bill that seeks to “end recognition of foreign Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs)” while also taking other actions to tighten CDL standards for non-citizen truck drivers. On October 3, 2025, U.S. Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24) introduced the Protecting America’s Roads Act.

Oklahoma officials partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a special enforcement effort at a Port of Entry last week. On September 29, 2025, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) announced that a three-day commercial vehicle enforcement effort took place last week at the Beckham County Port of Entry with assistance from ICE and the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

The announcement was made on Friday, September 26th by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy following the completion of the agency’s audit of state policies regarding the issuing of non domiciled CDLs. 

The press release states that the audit revealed the many ways that the current regulatory framework can fail, and even uncovered the “catastrophic pattern of states issuing licenses illegally to foreign drivers.” The USDOT has determined that these factors have created an imminent hazard on the roadways that must be fixed immediately.