Truck driver from Somalia faces deportation after passing through Arizona checkpoint, Border Patrol says

The United States Border Patrol (USBP) says that a truck driver will be removed from the U.S. after she passed through an immigration checkpoint near Yuma, Arizona.

On September 4, 2025, USBP’s Yuma Sector announced that Somali truck driver Kauser Mohamoud Yusuf, 33, was arrested at the Highway 95 immigration checkpoint north of Yuma after officers determined she was removable from the U.S.

USBP said that Yusuf entered the U.S. legally on a visa in 2005 but that she violated the conditions of that privilege.

“In 2015, she was convicted in Minnesota for felony trafficking, was required to register as a predatory offender, and was sentenced to over seven years in prison,” USBP said. Officials said that the conviction was for sex trafficking involving a minor.

Yusuf was ordered to be removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge, and is currently in federal custody pending removal, officials said.