Ind. Gov. Braun: Nearly 300 illegal aliens with CDLs were stopped, prosecuted in state over last 3 months ^⁠64%

5/25/2026, 5:40:22 PM

Topics: Border Security, State Politics, Traffic Safety

Keywords: Immigration, Border Security, Cdl, Commercial Drivers Licenses, Indiana, Governor Mike Braun, Ice, Traffic Safety, Trucking Industry

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Recency Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 25.5% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 549 faulty-reasoning hits from 251 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠64% (8,005 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.40% of the article peer group.

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Nearly 300 illegal immigrants with commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) were reportedly stopped and prosecuted in Indiana over the past three months, according to the state’s governor, Mike Braun.

An aide to Braun (R-Ind.), Tony Ferraro, told the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission that the state has discovered at least 283 undocumented drivers operating trucks at its weight stations over a 90-day period.

“That’s over three a day that we pulled out of trucks,” he said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“The bottom line is it was illegal.

It was against the law.

We prosecuted and took over the enforcement action,” he added.

Ferraro emphasized that many of the stopped drivers held commercial driver licenses (CDLs) from blue states like California and New York.

While these specific states do not explicitly condition CDL eligibility on full U.S. citizenship, federal regulations strictly mandate that all commercial applicants demonstrate valid legal presence and explicit employment authorization within the United States.

Consequently, because federal compliance frameworks govern commercial transportation nationwide, no state can legally issue a CDL to an illegal aliens, regardless of any state-level non-commercial licensing policies.

Nonetheless, some legal experts claim that drivers with valid CDLs from states without previous citizenship requirements may still legally operate commercial vehicles.

This loophole could expose Indiana to lawsuits.

Nevertheless, Braun maintained his strict stance on traffic safety, vowing to crack down on undocumented commercial drivers on state roads.

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Ind. Gov. Braun: Nearly 300 illegal aliens with CDLs were stopped, prosecuted in state over last 3 months ^⁠64%