Federal immigration officers are working with local and state police along roadways across the nation as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on illegal aliens with commercial driver’s licenses.

Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s point man for mass deportations and border security, said Tuesday that the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation will be working with state law enforcement to identify truck drivers who were improperly issued CDLs.

“We’ve got a lot of people looking for, actually, some states we’re actually working weigh stations with the troopers trying to get these people as they’re coming through,” Homan told Fox News, according to the Washington Examiner. “So, it’s a work in progress. President Trump is serious about this. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement is] out there with the local law enforcement and state law enforcement.”

Homan said the effort is to identify and intercept the nearly 200,000 non-U.S. citizens who received CDLs from states despite having entered the U.S. illegally. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in May that more than 28,000 licenses issued to illegal aliens have been revoked nationwide in the past year.

Homan said the challenge for the Trump administration has been that Democrat-run states have refused to turn over databases of CDL drivers to the federal government.

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