ICE Crackdown on Immigrant Truck Drivers Threatens US Economy

Immigrant truck drivers are vital to the economy. ICE crackdown is forcing them off roads

Targeting of foreign-born truckers risks ‘deepening severe labor shortages’ as thousands of drivers have been taken off roads for failing English proficiency requirements After moving to Ohio in 2013, Ibragim Chakhalidze’s father set up a trucking company just miles from where two of the country’s major road freight arteries – the I-70 and the I-75 – meet. Formerly farmers who had come to the US from south-east Russia through a government refugee program, he says trucking has been in his fami...

By Stephen Starr in Huber Heights, Ohio