The Indian illegal alien charged with the death of three motorists in Florida had a work permit from the federal government. And when far-left Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom of California tried to pin blame on the first Trump administration, he found out that the facts don’t fit his narrative.
In fact, the open-borders Biden administration issued the permit, and it was Newsom’s state motor vehicles department that gave the man a commercial driver’s license.
Meanwhile, DHS has told X journalist Bennie Johnson that the wreck has the bureau considering immigration enforcement at truck weigh stations. Illegal immigrants are big in the truck industry, Johnson reported.
As well, an X user discovered a Punjabi CDL school and a Punjabi trucking association.
Arrested in the wreck after making an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce is an estimable fellow called Harjinder Singh.
As The New American reported yesterday, citing Fox News’s Bill Melugin, Singh entered the country illegally in 2018 and received a deportation order. He, of course, claimed fear, which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services validated. That permitted the beturbaned illegal to stay here.
California issued the CDL that put him on the road. Video from his tractor-trailer cab shows that he illegally U-turned from the right-hand northbound lane on the turnpike. A Chrysler minivan plowed into the trailer. Two occupants died at the scene. One died at the hospital.
The totaled minivan resembles a car that rode over an improved explosive device in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Singh is charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.
Strangley, Newsom thought the time was right to zing President Trump.
“Hey, genius,” he wrote on X to DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin:
[T]he federal government (TRUMP ADMIN) already confirmed that this guy meets federal and state immigration requirements — YOU issued him a work permit (EAD).
As usual, the Trump Administration is either lying or clueless.
McLaughlin’s reply: Nope. “False” she wrote over Newsom’s imprudent claim:
False. Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump Administration on September 14, 2020. It was later approved under the Biden Administration June 9, 2021.
The state of California issues Commercial Drivers Licenses. There is no national CDL.
Sincerely,
Genius
And now, it appears, DHS will be checking just who is hurtling down America’s interstates at 70 mph.
DHS “has just confirmed to me that ICE is seriously considering immigration enforcement at Truck Weigh Stations across America,” Johnson wrote on X. “DHS spokesperson,” he added, “tells me ICE enforcement at Truck stops and DOT Weigh Stations are ‘on the table.’”
If true, that’s a good thing. “Trucking industry insiders” told Johnson that “illegal aliens are rampant in the profession.”
An X user offered evidence that might explain why Singh — a common name in the Punjab — was on the road. Putting Punjabis on the road is something of an industry itself.
User Lauren G posted a link and screen shot from the Punjab Truck Driving School in Newsom’s California, which gave Singh his CDL. She also posted a link to the Punjabi Trucking Association of North America, the “s the proud representative of the Punjabi trucking industry.”
Such is the prevalence of illegal-alien truck drivers that TruckersReport.com posted a thread about the issue.
A writer called Dune-T explained how illegals get CDLs, mentioning Indians as an example.
“The way it worked for the last few years was like this,” he wrote:
You cross the southern border, apply for asylum, get a social security card and a temporary protection status. With those documents you go to a CDL school, that is run by people from your original country, who speak your language and who help you to pass the exam.
So you get a CDL after being in this country only for 3 months, get on the road without speaking English and without experience of this country[’s] road etiquette and rules.
It’s especially messed up if you came from India or something like that where there is chaos on the roads and you have never seen snow in your life before.
“Chaos on the roads” might just include illegal-alien Indian truck drivers who illegally U-turn from the right-hand lane of a major highway.
Indeed, such is the rising number of wrecks involving illegal-alien truck drivers that an Ohio law firm’s website devotes a page to it: “The Legal Process of Truck Crashes Involving an Illegal Immigrant.”
The “influx of immigrant drivers has also raised concerns about road safety and accident rates,” the website says, because “many of these drivers may lack the same training, experience, and familiarity with U.S. traffic laws as their native-born counterparts.”
“Undocumented” drivers are a particular concern, the website says:
The challenges faced by immigrant drivers extend beyond road safety, as they often grapple with language barriers, legal uncertainties, and limited access to resources including healthcare and legal assistance.
Why any immigrant, legal or illegal, who cannot fluently speak and write English is permitted anywhere near an 18-wheeler is unclear. But if the Trump administration starts checking drivers at weigh stations, Americans might get a clear picture of the perils they face on the nation’s interstates.