US Border Patrol: Thirty Indian nationals who were driving semitrucks with commercial driver’s licenses while residing illegally in the United States have been detained by US border patrol authorities.
According to a statement released last week by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 49 illegal aliens with commercial driver’s licenses were detained by Border Patrol officers in California’s El Centro Sector during vehicle stops at immigration checkpoints and interagency operations.
42 unlawful people with commercial driver’s licenses driving semitrucks while traveling interstate or passing through immigration checkpoints were arrested by officials between November 23 and December 12.
China, Eritrea, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Russia, Somalia, Turkey, and Ukraine were among the countries represented among those detained, with 30 coming from India and two from El Salvador.
According to the government, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington issued eight of the business driver’s licenses, while California granted 31 of them.
Additionally, on December 10 and 11, agents from Indio Station took part in Operation Highway Sentinel, a two-day, coordinated, extensive enforcement operation headed by U.S.
Homeland Security Investigations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Fontana, California, and Ontario.
45 unauthorized people with commercial driver’s licenses were apprehended as a consequence of Operation Highway Sentinel.
One Indian national and one Tajik national were detained by Indio officials on the first day.
Agents from the Indio Station arrested one Uzbek individual and four Indian nationals on the second day.
California commercial transportation businesses were the explicit focus of Operation Highway Sentinel.
It was started after a number of deadly collisions were brought on by unauthorized drivers who were driving semitrucks at the time of the incidents and had been granted commercial driver’s licenses.
According to CBP, the goal of this interagency operation was to protect US roadways, punish immigration law infractions, and maintain regulatory standards in the commercial transportation industry.
“The success of this operation highlights the ongoing dangers posed by the unmitigated border crisis we experienced prior to 2025,” stated Joseph Remenar, Acting Chief Patrol Agent for El Centro Sector.
These semitrucks should never have been driven by the people who were arrested, and the states that issued them commercial driver’s licenses are directly to blame for the terrible collisions that we have lately seen.
The protection of the American people will remain the top priority for El Centro Sector, along with our partnered colleagues in Homeland Security Investigations and other agencies.
In recent months, there have been many incidents of Indians who entered the United States illegally driving trucks and becoming engaged in deadly and serious traffic accidents.
Following the deaths of William Micah Carter, 25, and Jennifer Lynn Lower, 24, when their car collided with his semi-truck, Rajinder Kumar, 32, was accused of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment.
After Harjinder Singh was arrested in August on three counts of vehicular homicide while operating a semi-truck in Florida, Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an arrest detainer on him.
Partap Singh was apprehended by ICE the same month when he drove a commercial 18-wheeler in California and caused a multi-car collision.
Five-year-old Dalilah Coleman suffered severe, permanent injuries in the collision.
Jashanpreet Singh, who murdered three people in California while operating an 18-wheeler while intoxicated, had an arrest detainer filed against him by ICE in October.
