Overview
- Since September, federal officials report more than 220 arrests in Indiana, including 146 people driving semitrucks and other commercial vehicles.
- The operation ran with Indiana State Police near the Illinois state line under 287(g) authority enabling real-time immigration checks.
- Investigators say more than 40 arrested drivers held commercial driver’s licenses, largely issued by Illinois, California and New York, with licenses tied to over a dozen states overall.
- Officials say the focus followed recent fatal crashes involving big-rig drivers without legal status, and ICE leadership framed the effort as removing high-risk operators from the roads.
- Gov. Mike Braun said Indiana will assign additional troopers to the program as protesters and some local leaders in Gary criticized the rollout, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said no U.S. citizens were detained.