GOP bill would let police seize big rigs owned by companies hiring undocumented drivers

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: January 29, 2026

Words: 1,141

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Arizona does not have the power to enforce federal immigration laws, but Republican lawmakers want police officers in the state to interrogate truckers about their citizenship status anyway.

Last year, Harjinder Singh, an asylum-seeker who was born in India, allegedly made an illegal U-turn while driving an 18-wheeler in Fort Pierce, Florida, causing a crash that killed three people. The Trump administration seized on the incident to stoke opposition to foreign-born drivers and …

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