This Florida truck crash is horrific on its own — three innocent lives lost because of one man’s illegal U-turn. But the more details come out, the uglier the story gets.
The driver, Harjinder Singh, was an illegal immigrant who crossed the border in 2018. He should never have been behind the wheel of a commercial truck in the first place. Investigators now say he failed his English and road sign tests — basic requirements for anyone operating a semi on U.S. roads. Yet somehow, he still managed to get not one, but two different commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued by states that never should’ve approved him.
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In 2023, Washington state gave Singh a full-term CDL, even though federal law says only citizens and green card holders are eligible.
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In 2024, California gave him a limited-term/non-domiciled CDL.
Now the Department of Transportation is scrambling to investigate how these states handed over licenses that appear to violate federal rules.
Meanwhile, the mainstream networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) are pretending this story doesn’t exist. Not a single second of airtime so far. Compare that with the wall-to-wall coverage they give every bizarre accident video — like influencers getting hit by a car during a livestream or a gas line explosion at a vet hospital. But when an illegal immigrant trucker kills three Americans and exposes how sanctuary states hand out CDLs? Silence.
It’s not hard to figure out why. This case blows a massive hole in the Democrat narrative:
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Trump’s DHS rejected Singh’s work permit in 2020.
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Biden’s DHS approved it in 2021.
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That “approval” opened the loophole California used to hand him a CDL.
As Heritage’s Lora Ries explained, some states have exploited this work authorization loophole: as long as DHS rubber-stamps an EAD card, states like California pretend that’s good enough to issue a CDL — even if the person is in the country illegally and their asylum or immigration case hasn’t been approved.
The Biden administration’s lax policies, combined with California’s sanctuary-state recklessness, put a man behind the wheel of a semi who failed basic English and road safety requirements. And now three families are planning funerals.
Even worse, while DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin is trying to shut this loophole down, Gavin Newsom’s press office is actually defending the process on X, trying to deflect blame back to Trump. Their argument crumbles under the timeline: Trump’s DHS denied Singh’s application in 2020. Biden’s DHS granted him work authorization in 2021. California issued him a CDL afterward. End of story.
This isn’t just about one illegal immigrant driver. It’s about an entire system where Democrat-run states and Biden’s DHS play fast and loose with the rules — and Americans pay the price on the roads.
