ICE Op: Two-Thirds of Nabbed Illegal Aliens’ CDLs Were Issued by Two Sanctuary States
15th October 2025
A three-day operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) nabbed 120 illegal aliens – three of four of whom have commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued by U.S. states that grant CDLs regardless of immigration status.
The issue of illegal alien CDLs made national news in August, when Harjinder Singh attempted to make an illegal U-turn, causing a deadly wreck that killed three people in Florida. Singh has been charged with vehicular homicide.
In the ICE-OHP operation, which concluded September 25, the CDL of one illegal alien taken into custody had “No Name Given Anmol” listed as his identity on his license.
Three-fourths (75.8%) of the 120 illegal aliens arrested in the operation have commercial driver’s licenses.
Of those 91 illegal aliens with CDLs, nearly two-thirds (63.8%) were issued their commercial driver’s licenses by either California or New York – both so-called “sanctuary states”.