During Thanksgiving week, some 73 million people will take to the roads for the busiest travel season of the year (heaviest travel Tuesday-Monday according to AAA) and drivers will share the highways with an untold number of illegal aliens operating semi-tractor trailers.
We can extrapolate that, from several recent arrests of truck-driving illegal aliens found holding non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) and the fact that California has admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 non-domiciled CDLs to foreign drivers who may not be able to read road signs or who previously drove in more chaotic driving cultures. In a nationwide non-domiciled CDL audit, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has also identified Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington as states with licensing patterns inconsistent with federal regulations.
Terror On Wheels
Now, ICE has arrested an accused terrorist driving a big rig in Kansas. Illegal alien Akhror Bozorov of Uzbekistan, was arrested by ICE on Nov. 9, while he was illegally working as a commercial truck driver. Bozorov, 31, is wanted in Uzbekistan for belonging to a terrorist organization, according to an ICE statement.
Image CreditAkhror Bozorov (ICE)
“Uzbekistan authorities issued an arrest warrant for Bozorov in 2022 for being a member of a terrorist organization. He is accused of distributing terrorist propaganda, calling for jihad online, and recruiting terrorists to join the jihad movement,” the statement said.
Bozorov illegally snuck into the United States in February 2023, according to ICE. He was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol and released to aimlessly drift around the nation, as per the Biden Administration’s immigration free-for-all policy.
The accused terrorist found comfort in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Pennsylvania, where, on July 7, 2025, Bozorov was issued a non-domiciled CDL complete with a driver’s license number.
It is worth noting that to register to vote in Pennsylvania, an applicant needs to write down a driver’s license or a Social Security number on a voter registration form. Bozorov may have had both. Incredibly, the gold star on the upper right corner of his license shows that Bozorov had enough documentation for Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to issue a Real ID license, good until Jan. 2029. Both the non-domiciled CDL and Real ID are supposed to be issued only to lawfully present non-U.S. citizens. Those illegally present in the U.S. are not entitled to the license or the work.
The Pennsylvania GOP issued a statement calling for an investigation into how Bozorov was granted a license.
“Whenever non-citizen applicants apply for a CDL in Pennsylvania, PennDOT reviews the necessary immigration and naturalization documents and completes the federal process for verifying lawful presence, confirming the non-citizen’s legal status in real-time using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE database before issuing a license,” PennDOT Press Secretary Alexis Campbell told The Federalist in an email. “If the applicant clears the federal SAVE process, which confirms the applicant is residing in the U.S. under legal status, and successfully meets all other criteria, a license is issued. PennDOT completes these two checks to confirm legal status with the federal government every time it issues a license to a non-citizen, and has followed this process without exception in 2025.”
PennDOT has issued approximately 12,000 non-domiciled CDLs and Commercial Learner’s Permits, Campbell said.
In September, Pennsylvania paused the issuance of all non-domiciled commercial driver licenses in accordance with new rules from the FMCSA.
Deadly Drivers
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced in September an immediate plan to restrict who is eligible for a non-domiciled commercial learner’s permits (CLPs) or CDLs. At that point, the FMCSA had identified at least five fatal crashes since January involving non-domiciled CDL holders. Of course, that plan was challenged in court, and currently the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has issued a stay pending review of the newly issued rules.
“Licenses to operate a massive, 80,000-pound truck are being issued to dangerous foreign drivers – often times illegally. This is a direct threat to the safety of every family on the road, and I won’t stand for it,” Duffy said in a statement.
It is not clear how many CDL holders are in the U.S. without permission, but it is clear some rule breakers are hazards on the road.
Image CreditJashanpreet Singh (ICE)
In October, Jashanpreet Singh of India was charged with Vehicular Manslaughter with Gross Negligence and DUI Causing Injury after the truck he was driving crashed into the vehicles in front of him, killing three people and severely injuring others, according to the San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office in California. Singh illegally entered the U.S. through the wide open southern border in 2022, an ICE statement said.
Borko Stankovic of Serbia and Montenegro was arrested Oct. 15 for reckless homicide and criminal recklessness. ICE reported that Stankovic was driving a truck in Indiana without a valid commercial license. His truck swerved into oncoming traffic and collided with a Subaru Crosstrek, killing the driver. He has been in the U.S. illegally since 2011.
Image CreditBorko Stankovic (ICE)
A three-day Oklahoma Highway Patrol traffic enforcement crackdown in October on Interstate 40 netted 120 illegal alien arrests, including 91 who were operating trucks without a CDL, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
That operation averaged 40 arrests a day on just one Oklahoma highway. We can reasonably conclude that there are many more truck drivers who don’t belong in the U.S.
How many can read the road signs? How many have used their CDL number to register to vote? How many more are wanted terrorists? What happens when an activated terrorist gets the keys to a 40-ton 18-wheeler hauling propane, hydrogen, ammonia, or chlorine?
Biden’s borders, and apparently flawed CDL licensing policies, have literally put weapons in the hands of terrorists, next to cars carrying pumpkin pie to grandma’s house.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
