A truck driver with a pending asylum claim and green card application was detained by federal immigration agents at a weigh station in northern Indiana, his wife said.

Ahmed Nenni, 29, a Mauritanian national, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) and Indiana State Police at around 11:30 a.m. on October 16 after being stopped during a routine inspection while completing his regular delivery route, his wife said.

"His record is clean. He has never had a criminal record and was a tax-paying individual," Elizabeth Nenni, 24, a chiropractic assistant and U.S. citizen, told Newsweek .

The Department of Homeland Security told Newsweek that Ahmed Nenni held a commercial driver’s license issued by the state of Michigan and said he was employed by Zain

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