Indiana tightens rules on migrant truckers, requires visas and English proficiency

Indiana officials are moving to revoke commercialized driver’s licenses (CDLs) for immigrants incapable to supply valid enactment visas, with each affected licenses acceptable to expire astatine midnight Wednesday. 

In a connection connected societal media Tuesday afternoon, Indiana Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith said that moving forward, each aboriginal non-citizen CDL applications volition request 1 of 3 approved enactment visas, portion besides requiring the operator to show proficiency successful English. 

The announcement comes days aft Fox News cameras embedded with national information officials successful Florida captured troubling encounters with motortruck drivers who couldn’t work roadworthy signs oregon pass successful English.

State troopers said that up to fractional of truckers astatine immoderate Florida weigh stations neglect to conscionable English proficiency requirements.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that wide fraud is allowing amerciable immigrants to get commercialized driver’s licenses, which helium said poses information risks. (Department of Homeland Security)

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In summation to the caller visa requirements, Beckwith said immoderate employers who "knowingly prosecute amerciable drivers" without a valid CDL volition look a $50,000 fine. 

"This is simply a large archetypal measurement successful making our streets safer for Hoosiers," Beckwith wrote successful the statement. "Now it’s our work to enforce these caller laws and forestall immoderate much senseless deaths."

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that wide fraud is allowing amerciable immigrants to get commercialized driver’s licenses, which helium said poses information risks. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Deadly crashes person been reported nationwide involving drivers the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed were successful the U.S. illegally oregon operating with CDLs they should ne'er person had.

In February, an amerciable migrant motortruck operator from India allegedly ran a reddish light, causing a fatal clang successful Hendricks County, Indiana.

Singh Sukhdeep received his commercialized driver's licence successful May 2025, contempt being caught and released aft crossing the U.S. borderline illegally successful 2018.

A commercialized driver's licence of Singh Sukhdeep, an amerciable alien from India accused of sidesplitting an Indiana antheral successful a February 2026 crash. (Obtained by Fox News)

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In a Florida case, Harjinder Singh, an amerciable migrant from India, was charged aft a tractor-trailer clang near 3 radical dead.

The tractor-trailer, driven by Singh, allegedly made an amerciable U-turn connected the Florida Turnpike done an "Official Use Only" entree constituent successful St. Lucie County, blocking each lanes of the road and starring to the crash.

His brother, Harneet Singh, 25, besides an amerciable migrant from India, was riding arsenic a rider astatine the clip of the crash.

Harjinder Singh, who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally and obtained a CDL successful California, is facing 3 counts of vehicular homicide, according to officials.

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Fox News' Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.