INDIANA — A Mauritanian truck driver with a pending asylum claim and green card application was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Indiana State Police during a routine inspection at a weigh station in northern Indiana.

Ahmed Nenni, 29, was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. on October 16 while completing his regular delivery route, according to his wife, Elizabeth Nenni. She said he has no criminal record and was a tax-paying individual.

Ahmed Nenni is pictured with his wife Elizabeth Nenni.

The Department of Homeland Security told Newsweek that Nenni held a commercial driver’s license issued by Michigan and worked for Zain Express, a trucking company based in Dearborn.

Elizabeth Nenni said officers approached her husband while he was outside his vehicle and directed him to follow them. “Ahmed is a law-abiding individual, so he complied,” she said. Later, she received a call from him informing her that ICE had taken him into custody.

DHS confirmed that Nenni unlawfully entered the U.S. on September 15, 2023, in San Diego, and was later released under the Biden administration. He has a pending asylum case and a marriage-based I-130 green card petition. His immigration court hearing is scheduled for 2027 in New York.

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