The illegal alien arrested in the vehicular homicide of three motorists in Florida was slated for deportation in 2018. However, he claimed he feared returning to his home country, and was released on $5,000 bond.
Cops allege that Indian Harjinder Singh, who was driving an 18-wheeler, illegally made a U-turn on the Sunshine State Turnpike on August 14. The motorist next to him smashed into his trailer.
Though the wreck was in Florida, the Indian illegal had been handed a commercial driver’s license by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s motor vehicles department.
The wreck was the fifth vehicular homicide by an illegal alien in less than a month. In sanctuary state Wisconsin, a drunk-driving illegal has been charged with the homicide of a young couple.
And before they were killed, a drunk-driving Venezuelan illegal killed a little girl.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News that the Indian illegal jumped the border in September 2018. Border Patrol arrested him, after which he “was processed for expedited removal (fast track deportation) by the first Trump administration but claimed fear of going back to India.”
Inexplicably, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “affirmed the fear via a positive finding of fear, and he was released on a $5,000 immigration bond in January 2019 after being given a Notice to Appear,” the network’s Bill Melugin reported on X. “He has remained in immigration proceedings ever since.”
U.S. marshals arrested Singh in California on August 16 for the vehicular homicide in Florida. “Florida officials say the sanctuary state of California gave him a commercial driver’s license,” reported Melugin. He then offered more details about the beturbaned Indian:
According to Singh, he has no serious physical or mental medical conditions. Singh claims to have no known immediate relatives serving in the U.S. military and is not the primary caretaker of a person with mental or physical disability, a minor or person with a serious illness. Singh claims to not be married and has no minor dependent children. Singh is not a victim of a domestic violence in the United States or human trafficking. After careful consideration of all factors and available records, Singh is considered a significant threat to public safety and is an exceptional circumstance warranting enforcement action due to the serious nature of his criminal history. [Enforcement and Removal Operations] San Francisco [seeks] approval to place Singh in removal proceedings.
Melugin also published a timeline with more details about Singh’s journey from run-of-the-mill illegal alien to highway killer.
On September 20, 2018, he jumped the border near San Ysidro and was quickly arrested. He “was served with an I-860 and processed as an Expedited Removal with Credible Fear,” Melugin reported. Then,
On December 26, 2018, [USCIS] issued a positive fear finding and issued a Notice to Appear (NTA).
On January 10, 2019, an Immigration Judge (IJ) sets a bond, in the amount of $5,000.00.
On January 11, 2019, an obligor posts bond.
On July 29, 2020, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) re-calendars hearing to April 5, 2021, at Seattle, Washington.
On September 3, 2024, an IJ grants Change of Venue (COV), from Seattle to San Francisco, California.
On August 16, 2025, ERO San Francisco placed an I-247A Immigration Detainer for Singh, with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, in French Camp, CA.
“According to the Florida Highway Patrol’s crash report, a semi-truck was driving northbound in the right lane of the Turnpike as a Chrysler Town & Country minivan was traveling north in the Turnpike’s left lane,” WPTV reported:
From the right lane, the semi-truck attempted to make a U-turn at an “official use only” turn-around … crossing in front of the vehicle in the left lane. …
Two passengers inside the minivan, a 37-year-old woman from Pompano Beach and a 54-year-old man from Miami, died at the scene of the crash. The driver of the Chrysler, a 30-year-old man from Florida City, was flown to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Video shows Singh’s looking as if he hadn’t a care in the world. A still photo of the crash shows the totaled minivan, its front smashed to nothing.
“3 innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License,” Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem wrote on X. “This gut wrenching tragedy should have never happened.”
Spokesman Tricia McLaughlin fingered Newsom as a culprit in the vehicular massacre.
“Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License — this state of governance is asinine,” she wrote on X:
How many more innocent people have to die before @GavinNewsom stops playing games with the safety of the American public?
Singh faces of three counts of negligent vehicular homicide.
Weeks before Singh’s wreck, a drunk-driving Honduran illegal in Dane County, Wisconsin, Noelia Saray Martinez-Avila, “struck a vehicle while driving in the wrong direction on a highway, killing 18-year-old Hallie Helgeson at the scene on July 20,” DHS reported:
Martinez-Avila also gravely injured 19-year-old Brady Heiling who died from his injuries on July 25.
Martinez-Avila faces two counts of vehicular homicide.
Amazingly, DHS reported, despite a detainer on the illegal, local authorities gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement less than an hour to arrest her.
In December, Venezuelan illegal Joel Gonzalez Chacin was charged in the death 7-year-old Ivory Smith in Houston, Texas. He was charged with intoxication manslaughter.