ICE Agents Are Sweeping Up DC’s Delivery Drivers

The New Republic reports:

The Trump administration has been snatching delivery drivers off the street mid-order as part of its sweeping federal effort to make Washington, D.C. “safer,” as multiple residents have reported.

“Yesterday, my UberEats driver got arrested by ICE while he was delivering my food,” said D.C. resident Tyler DeSue in a TikTok he posted on Sunday that went viral. “I stepped into the streets and I saw police lights … he was being questioned by eight or nine ICE officers.”

The officers claimed that they had pulled over the delivery driver—whose name is “Sidi” on the app—because his moped plates didn’t show up in their index, before conceding that there wasn’t a single issue with the vehicle. The driver’s first language was Arabic, and when they asked how he arrived in the United States, he struggled to answer, and the ICE officers arrested him.

Read the full article. Multiple clips (see below) show other delivery drivers being arrested by ICE. Residents report seeing fewer such drivers on the streets as business plummets for DC’s bars and restaurants.

Trump’s masked ICE Nazis in DC ran down and hit a food delivery worker on his moped with their SUV….now being taken to the hospital in an ambulance….taxpayer money being well spent on important business 🙄

📷@AllisonLMcManus @ArielCohen37 pic.twitter.com/iac9ZFZBmP

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) August 19, 2025

On 14th & R this morning in DC, officers with vests that said only police detained a man who seemed to have been riding a moped, taking him down as passerby screamed. pic.twitter.com/MbCfeJvSKt

— Fte Media (@FTEMedia8) August 17, 2025

@td13__ The man was doing nothing wrong and was unlawfully pulled over due to the officer making a mistake. DC is full of things like this right now and it’s so sucking to see #DC #ICE #Trump #arrested ♬ original sound – Tyler