Left: Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind. Right: A crashsite involving Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan, that left four dead. (CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images; Fox News/DHS)
"If you’re driving a truck on our roads, you need to be legal, you need to be able to read traffic signs, and you need to follow the law," said Banks. "The TruckSafe Tipline gives people on the ground a way to speak up when they see carriers cutting corners and putting lives at risk."
In an X post, Banks addressed truckers directly, writing, "If you’re a trucker or work in the industry and see something unsafe or know of shady carriers hiring illegals, I want to hear from you."
This comes shortly after a driver of a semi-truck at the center of a multi-vehicle crash that left four dead in Indiana was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Indiana State Police said the fatal crash happened Tuesday around 4 p.m. in the area of State Road 67 and County Road 550 East in Jay County, where the truck collided with a van.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News that the driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a Kyrgyzstani national who entered the U.S. via the Biden-era CBP One cell phone app on Dec. 19, 2024, at the Nogales, Ariz., port of entry, and he was released into the U.S. via parole by the Biden administration.
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Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, during a news conference at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Ryan Collerd/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Kucharski explained further that, though a heavily regulated industry, illegal alien truck drivers can exploit a "loophole" in the system by obtaining non-domiciled commercial drivers’ licenses from sanctuary states. They are then able to outcompete legitimate trucking businesses by charging lower prices, leading to the demise of many American small businesses in the industry.
"American truck drivers are patriots and vital to our country. No one is more outraged about what’s happening than them," Banks wrote in another X post, adding, "Shady trucking companies that hire illegals, put lives at risk, and undercut American drivers’ wages are the problem. We must hold them accountable!"
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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also chimed in on X, writing, "[Sen. Banks] is absolutely right! Too many lives have been lost and this must stop."
"We will crack down on these shady trucking companies and get to the bottom of the crash that killed four members of the Amish community in Indiana," he said, noting, "Stay tuned for more to come on this."
Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes, Greg Norman-Diamond and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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