On October 10, Afghan asylum seeker Mohammad Ali Dadfar fell victim to "Operation Midway Blitz," an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sting to find drivers whose licenses were issued in so-called sanctuary states.
According to Dadfar, he was on the phone with his brother at a weigh station in Indiana when masked ICE agents signaled him to end the call. Only after arriving at Greene County Jail in Springfield, Missouri, was Dadfar able to contact his wife to tell her he had been detained. He reported being forced to remove his clothes while agents asked if he had documentary proof that he was in the U.S. legally. Dadfar told his wife that the agents never examined the document he provided.
