Florida Uses Highway Weigh Stations as Immigration Check Points

Florida law enforcement will begin asking commercial truck drivers about their immigration status during inspections at highway weigh stations after a turnpike crash killed three people earlier this month.

State Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and state Attorney General James Uthmeier, flanked by a US Border Patrol agent and several state law enforcement officials, said Monday that the new inspections were prompted by the fatal crash caused after Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old Indian national, made an illegal u-turn on the Florida Turnpike.

“If you come through these inspection stations and you are an illegal or breaking the law you will ...