The Trump administration is deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to truck weigh stations nationwide to remove more than 200,000 noncitizen truck drivers from America’s highways.
The crackdown comes one week after Pennsylvania State Police Trooper First Class Michael Pahira was struck and killed on Interstate 81 while conducting a commercial vehicle inspection.
Authorities say Michael Bon, a Haitian national, drove his tractor-trailer onto the shoulder and struck Pahira during the inspection on July 1.
Homeland Security officials confirmed that Bon was released into the country on parole by President Joe Biden in July 2024.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey then issued him a commercial driver’s license.
OVER 200,000 NONCITIZEN TRUCK DRIVERS — MANY WHO CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH — ARE NOW OPERATING ON U.S. HIGHWAYS
Bon’s case is far from isolated.
In February, Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan with a Pennsylvania CDL, was accused of driving into oncoming traffic in Indiana and killing four people in a van.
In August 2025, Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India with a California CDL, was accused of making an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike. The crash killed three people.
In October 2025, Jashanpreet Singh, an illegal immigrant from India who held a commercial license, was charged after a fiery crash on California’s I-10 killed three more.
The Democratic Party’s open border policy put these drivers on American roads.
The Biden administration paroled hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into the country with minimal vetting. Blue-state governors then handed them commercial driver’s licenses.
The Trump administration’s coordinated weigh-station enforcement targets the consequences of that reckless policy.
ICE officers will work alongside state troopers to identify and detain noncitizen drivers operating commercial vehicles illegally.
The operation aims to remove drivers who pose a public safety threat — including those who can’t speak English well enough to communicate with law enforcement or read highway signs.
Trooper Pahira’s death was preventable. So were the deaths of the ten Americans killed in the crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers since August 2025.
The coordinated ICE deployment represents a return to enforcing immigration law and protecting American lives on the nation’s highways.
