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Stephen Starr in Huber Heights, Ohio

Immigrant truck drivers are vital to the economy. ICE crackdown is forcing them off roads

Trucks on Interstate
Trucks on Interstate 80 in Albany, California. California in November 2025. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

After moving to Ohio in 2013, Ibragim Chakhalidze’s father set up a trucking company just miles from where two of the country’s major road freight arteries – the I-70 and the I-75 – meet.

Formerly farmers who had come to the US from south-east Russia through a government refugee program, he says trucking has been in his family’s and the wider Ahiska Turk community’s blood for decades.

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