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 we're 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.

"So it's a work in progress. President Trump is serious about this. ICE [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 noncitizens 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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in May that more than 28,000 licenses issued to illegal aliens have been revoked nationwide in the past year.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.

"The problem is we're working very well with red states. Blue states are still a struggle, right? Places like New York," he said.

"I mean, ICE and CBP [Customs and Border Protection] can't even get access to the DMV [Department of Motor Vehicles] database to run the checks. Thank God, you know, [acting Attorney General] Todd Blanche is suing these cities as they come up," Homan continued.

"And we've got to keep suing them, but we're out there ... enforcing the law. We're out there looking for these illegal aliens with CDLs."

Homan's comments came a week after Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael Pahira Jr. was killed after, authorities said, he was struck by a truck driven by an illegal alien from Haiti. Pahira was conducting a routine inspection on Interstate 81 when, authorities said, a truck driven by Michael Bon, 33, veered off the road and struck him.

DHS said Bon was released into the U.S. by the Biden administration in July 2024 on immigration parole. His application for Temporary Protected Status in October of that year was denied.

His parole was terminated in June 2025, and he was ordered to leave the country, according to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS said he remained in the U.S. illegally and lived in Brockton, Massachusetts, where he obtained a non-domiciled CDL and began driving tractor-trailers.

He first applied for the special license in March 2025, while he was still authorized to work in the U.S. under federal law, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles told WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The license was renewed in February, a month before the Trump administration directed states not to renew or issue new non-domiciled CDLs.

Bon was charged with felony vehicular homicide, felony vehicular aggravated assault, and misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person and involuntary manslaughter, as well as summary traffic offenses including reckless and careless driving.

DHS on Monday lodged a detainer asking Pennsylvania officials not to release Bon from jail. Bon has a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 16.

"This Haitian illegal alien was RELEASED into our country by the Biden Administration, and the sanctuary state of Massachusetts gave him a Commercial Driver's License," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement.

"Now, because of these reckless policies, a Pennsylvania State Trooper is dead after a crash that was 100% preventable. Illegal aliens should not be driving trucks on America's highways," she continued.

"Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and the Pennsylvania State Police as they mourn this loss."