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Jim Banks: on February 3, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was allowed into the United States under Joe Biden in 2023…

On the recordFebruary 9, 2026
on February 3, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was allowed into the United States under Joe Biden in 2023 killed four people on State Road 67 in Indiana--not far from where I live. He drove a semitruck head-on into a van. That van was carrying a 50-year-old father and two boys who were only 19 and 25 years old, along with a family friend, and they were all from a local Amish community, and now they are all dead. I am angry about it. I have had enough of it because it is stories like this that show why mass deportations matter and why they are needed now more than ever. At least seven Hoosiers have died on Indiana highways in the past 6 months because of illegal immigrants recklessly driving on our roads and at least eight more have been seriously injured and those are just the cases that I know about. In November, an illegal immigrant with a fake green card crashed his SUV into a van killing the 76-year-old driver from Decatur--again, not far from Columbia City where I live--before fleeing the scene. The illegal immigrant also seriously injured three innocent drivers in that same crash. Shortly before that accident, an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk and without a license crashed his car into two young parents who were on their way to pick up their kids from their grandparents' house. The young couple was seriously injured. I have seen images of the wreck, and they are lucky to be alive.
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Jim Banks
Republican · Indiana

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Discussing the impact of illegal immigration on road safety in Indiana.

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