Border Patrol Arrests Illegal Alien Truck Driver in Arizona

Border Patrol agents apprehended a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan who was found driving a tractor-trailer along Interstate 10. This individual was reportedly in possession of five counterfeit driver’s licenses, two issued in New York and three from Ohio. An official pointedly asked, “How many IDs does an illegal alien need?” in a social media post about the incident.

The arrest followed an investigation linked to a car accident on Interstate 10 near Quartzsite, Arizona. The Uzbek national entered the United States illegally at an unspecified spot in April 2023, coinciding with a significant surge in border crossings—approximately 184,000 that month. In July, he appeared before an immigration judge who ordered his deportation; however, he disregarded the removal order and continued to operate his commercial vehicle illicitly.

Officials claimed the arrest was grounded in the principle of preventing unauthorized foreign entries into the country and began the deportation process. The tractor-trailer was subsequently towed from the site of the crash.

Just days earlier, another Uzbek individual, Akol Bozorov, aged 31, was arrested while driving a commercial truck in Kansas. He was using a commercial driver’s license issued from Pennsylvania and had entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration’s border crisis in February 2023, a period marked by over 207,000 illegal entries. Authorities later learned that Bozorov was wanted in Uzbekistan on terrorism-related charges, being linked to a terrorist organization that propagated calls for jihad.

Tricia McLaughlin from the Department of Homeland Security remarked that Bozorov had not only been released by the Biden administration but had also been granted a commercial driver’s license by the state of Pennsylvania. She expressed concern, stating, “It goes without saying that terrorist illegal aliens should not be driving 18-wheelers on America’s highways,” pointing to a broader issue of national security under the current administration.

The push against illegal immigrants driving commercial vehicles appears to be ongoing. In Yuma, agents apprehended a 25-year-old man from India at an immigration checkpoint after discovering a commercial permit from New York. This individual was also apprehended on suspicions of illegal entry, initiating deportation proceedings against him.