There has never been a political movement in world history that relied on euphemisms more than the modern Left. Every single issue is filtered through euphemisms, like “restorative justice” or “affirmative action” or “a woman’s right to choose” or “equity.” So it’s not surprising that, as America imported tens of millions of foreign nationals, Democrats used the same, familiar strategy. Instead of explaining in detail why America needs open borders, or how the job market would benefit from a massive new influx of people, Democrats simply extolled the virtues of “diversity.” We’re a “melting pot,” they said.

The point of these euphemisms is to misdirect. In the context of immigration, they want you to talk about the abstract concept of multiculturalism, without getting into the specifics of the particular cultures that we’re inviting into the country.

I’ve covered the problems with third world immigration, and the trouble it causes. But one problem we haven’t spent a lot of time on is road safety. One thing about third world countries is that they tend not to have traffic laws the way we do in this country. Their roads are total chaos and people die all the time in very preventable ways. When I say preventable, I mean just a traffic light or a crosswalk might have prevented it.

Of course, if you take a huge number of people from these cultures and quickly relocate them to the United States, without any degree of vetting whatsoever, you won’t magically reprogram any of this behavior. Realistically, you can’t tell all of the foreign truck drivers to forget everything they know about the free-for-all system in their home country. You can’t force them all to learn English well enough to understand every sign that we’ve placed on the interstate. That’s simply not a reasonable expectation when you’re bringing in so many people at once.

Instead, the more we bring to this country, the more our roads will resemble the roads of their home country. And in practical terms, that means that the roads will become a lot more dangerous.

After this fatal crash that took place last week on the Florida Turnpike, which was caught on video, a lot of people are finally coming around to this realization.

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This is footage from inside the cab. A truck driver named Harjinder Singh was driving an 18-wheeler in the right-hand lane on the Florida Turnpike. Singh then realizes he’s going the wrong way. But instead of continuing on to the next exit — as any competent or sane truck driver would do — Singh turns his truck to the left, in order to enter an emergency U-Turn area, which is reserved for emergency vehicles. This maneuver has the effect of suddenly — and unexpectedly — blocking all lanes of traffic on the freeway. Within seconds, out of the blue, a van traveling in the left lane with nowhere to go plows into Singh’s trailer, killing all three passengers.

Harjinder Singh has been charged by Florida authorities with three counts of vehicular homicide. The victims included a 30-year-old man, a 54-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman. It was clear that everyone in the van was killed immediately on impact. And yet, as you saw from the footage, Singh didn’t appear to be particularly horrified by the crash he had caused.

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In the aftermath, as he’s standing on the side of the freeway while firefighters remove the three bodies from the van, he seems mildly annoyed by the whole thing. It’s almost as if he comes from a country where these kinds of deadly highway accidents happen all of the time. It’s almost as if street signs aren’t a big deal to Harjinder Singh. Who could’ve seen this coming?

By now you’ve probably heard that Singh entered the US illegally by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seven years ago. After he was caught, Singh claimed that he was “afraid” to return to India — where he’s from — and so he was allowed to remain in the United States — pending immigration proceedings that, of course, have dragged on for the better part of a decade. This is the asylum scam that we’re all very familiar with. Foreigners have learned that, if they say the right words, they can just walk right into the country, with no follow-up whatsoever.

And then, once they’re here, they can undercut U.S. workers by taking jobs for much less pay. No one in the government does anything to stop them, particularly in Left-wing states. There’s no oversight whatsoever. That’s why Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver’s license in California, even though he had no legal right to be in this country. Yes, a criminal who should’ve been deported many years ago, and who comes from a country that’s notorious for its extremely high rate of highway fatalities, was allowed to obtain a government-issued license to drive an 18-wheeler on our highways. 

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As confirmed by DHS, Singh’s federal work authorization was rejected by the Trump Administration in mid-September of 2020. But the Biden administration approved it less than one year later, in June of 2021. And the state of California, meanwhile, was no obstacle whatsoever.

What this means is that the leadership of the state of California, along with the Biden administration, is an accomplice to these three homicides that took place on the Florida Turnpike. The point of a driver’s license — and in particular a commercial driver’s license, which lets you operate the single most dangerous vehicle on the interstate — is to ensure that only competent, law-abiding people are behind the wheel. Someone who breaks federal law to enter this country, by definition, is not “law-abiding.” Therefore, they cannot be relied upon to follow traffic laws, or laws against DUI, or any other laws. But because of so-called “sanctuary policies,” criminals are allowed to drive these massive trucks, all the time, all over the country.

Obviously, California should be sued immediately, and a criminal investigation should be opened into Gavin Newsom as well. There’s actually precedent for this. George Ryan was the governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003.

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He was taken down by a scandal known as “Operation Safe Road,” involving the sale of commercial drivers’ licenses to unqualified drivers. The scandal dated back to 1994, when six children were killed after a tail-light assembly fell off a semi on the interstate, and struck the gas tank of a minivan behind it. Other drivers had tried to warn the semi driver that his tail-light assembly was dangling loose, but the semi driver couldn’t speak English. He had bought his license on the black market. It later emerged that the governor himself was implicated in distributing commercial licenses to drivers who were unable to understand basic English.

In today’s California, Gavin Newsom is clearly overseeing the distribution of driver’s licenses to unqualified drivers. So it’s reasonable to say that we need a full accounting for exactly how this is happening, and how state officials in California are processing these licenses.

At the same time, we have to acknowledge that the problem isn’t limited to California. The biggest open secret in the trucking industry is how widespread this fraud really is. Foreigners with no understanding of our country’s customs or laws are routinely handed the keys to 18-wheelers, often to disastrous results. And very often, their employer is a shell company that’s impossible to actually punish in any meaningful way.

While researching this topic, I went online and looked up a bunch of recent crashes involving 18-wheelers. All of these clips are from the last two years. And every single one of them involves a driver who, very clearly, is not an American. This is a report from just a few months ago, out of Dallas-Ft. Worth. Watch:

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“Solomun Weldekeal Araya” is accused of causing an 18-vehicle pileup that killed five people, including children, and injured 11. And now, guess what? He’s out on $7,000 bond. Most likely he won’t spend any time in prison at all. One of my producers reached out to ICE about Solomun’s case, and they told us, “If he is convicted, he will be subject to removal.” So we can make the obvious inference there. This is yet another person who shouldn’t even be inside this country.

Here’s another report, from the same news station in Dallas, just three months ago. A man named “Alexis Osmani Gonzales-Companioni” fell asleep at the wheel of his 18-wheeler.

Here’s what happened next:

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Meanwhile, over in Nevada, a 29-year-old African named Claude Rafiki drove on the wrong side of the road in his 18-wheeler. He ran over several motorcyclists, killing three of them. One of the fatalities was a 22-year-old man celebrating his birthday. He was crushed by the 18-wheeler as his parents looked on.

Here’s how the media covered that story:

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Yes, “the wind” is his defense. The wind supposedly blew an 18-wheeler onto the wrong side of the road for 30 seconds. What’s strange about “the wind” is that, other than Claude Rafiki, no one else was blown out of their lane. Even the motorcyclists were able to maintain their lanes, right up until he killed them. But according to the local news report, we’re supposed to infer that Rafiki has a plausible defense here.

Notice how, in this news report, they don’t demonstrate any curiosity about whether Claude Rafiki was a legal immigrant, or whether he could speak English, or how he obtained a commercial driver’s license in Michigan.

According to one local news station: “Rafiki’s initial court appearance was delayed several days as the courts were working to find Rafiki a translator, records indicated. Rafiki speaks Kinyarwanda, a Central African language.”

Right away, you’d think this would disqualify someone from holding a commercial driver’s license. He can’t even read street signs. He needs a specialized translator from Africa in order to understand what’s happening around him. But apparently, none of this is disqualifying in “sanctuary states.” They’ll hand you a commercial driver’s license, and send you on your way. Even if you kill several people, they don’t think it’s a big deal. Rafiki was only sentenced to roughly four years in jail, after all this. For killing three people and then blaming “the wind,” he got four years.

Again, pretty much every single trucking accident is like this. Back in Fort Worth, I came across this report from late last year:

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“Guadalupe Velazquez Cruz” was the culprit here. So there’s another classic American name for you. And who could forget the crash caused by “Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza,” the drug trafficker who had been deported more than a dozen times. Watch:

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Colorado police determined: “speed was a primary reason for the crash and that the truck’s brakes failed.”

But in the end, this guy only received a seven-month prison sentence. He’s been deported. So essentially, he suffered no consequences whatsoever. Before long, he’ll probably be back in the country driving another truck for some other fake company.

The truth is, there are so many crashes like this, taking place every day in this country, that it’s impossible to track them all. And very often, the media doesn’t tell us anything about them.

Take this crash from last month in Coachella Valley, for example. We still have no explanation for how this happened, or who the driver was:

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The latest news article I can find on this story is four weeks old. There doesn’t seem to be much urgency in California to get to the bottom of this one. An 18-wheeler veers across the freeway and kills several people, and we’re not allowed to know anything about who was driving. No one will provide any kind of update on the investigation, whatsoever. That’s how things work in California.

It’s also how things work in Canada. A few years ago in Ontario, a trucker named Mehakdeep Singh plowed into a car while he was texting on his phone. We’ll put that footage on the screen right now. The crash killed two children (ages 7 and 3) and their 68-year-old grandmother.

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Mehakdeep Singh shouldn’t have been driving at all. He falsified his logbook, for one thing. For another, Canada never should’ve allowed him into the country. But in the end, he was sentenced to just five years in prison. He probably won’t even be deported. For wiping out an entire family, you get a lighter sentence than George Santos.

And that’s not surprising in Canada.

Back in 2018, someone named “Jaskirat Singh Sidhu” killed 16 people, including several members of a junior ice hockey team called the “Humboldt Broncos.” Jaskirat failed to stop at a stop sign, and plowed directly into the team bus. He had dozens of recorded safety violations in the days prior to the crash, and shouldn’t have been on the roads either. And as punishment for destroying more than a dozen families and wiping out a small town’s hockey team, he received a sentence of just 8 years in prison. For comparison, that’s the same sentence that the government of Canada sought against the organizer of the nonviolent Trucker Convoy who protested COVID mandates. That’s how far gone Canada is. Upsetting the government is treated like mass murder.

What’s extraordinary about these kinds of incidents, from a political perspective, is how easy they’d be to stop. In the United States, at least, we don’t have to tolerate this. Here’s a paragraph I just pulled from the US Immigration Law Council, which assists illegal aliens:

If you are not a citizen, legal permanent resident, or a resident of Canada or Mexico, then you could obtain a ‘non-domiciled CDL’ in the U.S. if you meet certain requirements. … Skillful immigration attorneys can help navigate you through this process when you’re unsure.

This process needs to be ended immediately. There should be no room for a “skillful immigration attorney” — or any immigration attorney — to secure a commercial driver’s license for someone who is not a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States. The entire category of “non-domiciled CDLs” should be outlawed by Congress. States like California should be barred from issuing them, for any reason. This wouldn’t be remotely difficult to do. Under the Constitution, the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce. So it’s time to regulate it.

Doing so would save lives. There’s no question about it. But at the same time, it wouldn’t solve the whole problem. In part, that’s because of open corruption that takes place in DMVs all over the country. It’s not just happening in Gavin Newsom’s California. This is from the Fox affiliate in Florida, just a month ago.

Eight people have been arrested in Florida in connection with an alleged driver’s license scheme involving undocumented immigrants. … During the investigation, authorities discovered that two DMV employees were issuing an abnormally high number of driver’s licenses. Upon reviewing DMV surveillance footage, investigators confirmed that the individuals receiving these licenses were not completing the legally required tests. … The probe also revealed that the individuals seeking these licenses were connected through a third-party intermediary.

Many of these licenses were CDL’s. And this has been going on for several years. Watch:

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Recently, there have been similar busts in California and New York, and all over the country. And we all know that these arrests are barely scratching the surface. The only DMV employees who were caught, in all of these cases, were being extremely obvious about it. This is “Operation Safe Road” all over again.

So we have systemic corruption at every level. The DMV is corrupt. Many of these trucking companies don’t really exist. They’re totally unaccountable. And the drivers, who often have no regard for our laws or our language, are able to walk free just a couple of years after they kill American citizens. Getting rid of “non-domicile CDLs” is one step, but the Trump administration has to go much further than that. We need daily raids at rest stops on all of these highways, just like they’re raiding Home Depots. Arrest every single illegal alien with a useless CDL from California or Michigan or wherever else.

Then, the federal government should use the same dragnet they used on the January 6 grandmothers to hunt down everyone who’s ever opened one of these fake “trucking companies” to employ illegal aliens. This is what RICO laws were made for. Don’t just go after the companies that employ these truckers. Go after the people who established all of these shell companies.

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And then, when you’re done with all that, find a way to make sure that more Americans are driving these trucks and running these companies. Give them whatever incentives are needed. Make the mandatory testing for CDLs about ten times harder than it is — and include a language test. Force states to immediately report the name of every trucker involved in a fatal crash, along with the name of their company and its owner. If the information doesn’t check out, which it almost certainly won’t, then cut federal funding to the state until they reform their DMV. Very quickly, if the Trump administration takes any of these steps, you’ll have more Americans on the road, and fewer illegals like Harjinder Singh.

This is the only viable approach because Americans generally value the rule of law. They tend to care about human life. They tend to speak the English language and understand our customs. Those are three attributes that are actually pretty rare, when you zoom out and look at the entire world. But they’re attributes that every single truck driver must possess — or else you’ll keep hearing more stories about entire families getting wiped out on the interstate. No matter how many euphemisms Democrats come up with, these stories will not go away until the foreign truck drivers do. These foreigners will lose their livelihoods, but Americans will keep their lives. That’s a pretty obvious trade. It’s time we made it.