
DHS has confirmed that the illegal immigrant truck driver who killed two people in a multi-vehicle crash in California was caught at the border and released into the country during the Biden administration. His name is Manvir Singh. He's 24 years old. He crossed the border near Arizona in 2023. Border agents had him — and let him walk. Two Americans paid for that decision with their lives.
But sure, tell us again how border security is "just a talking point."
The crash happened at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday on northbound Highway 99 near Lodi, California. Singh's truck jackknifed, slamming into multiple vehicles. Two people were killed. Three other vehicles were involved. Singh has been charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit-and-run resulting in death or injury, and resisting a police officer. His bail was set at $185,000.
None of this had to happen. Every single bit of it was preventable. A man who had no legal right to be in this country was behind the wheel of a semi-truck on an American highway, and now Americans are in the morgue.
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis didn't sugarcoat it. "This criminal illegal alien from India should never have been behind the wheel of a semi-truck and allowed to kill two innocent people in a multi-vehicle crash in California," Bis said. She continued: "He is now charged with vehicular manslaughter, hit and run resulting in death or injury, and resisting a police officer. This is yet another example of why illegal aliens should not be operating trucks on American highways."
Yet another example. Because this isn't a one-off. As Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported, Singh is the fourth Indian illegal immigrant truck driver with the surname "Singh" arrested for fatal crashes. The fourth. Back in December 2025, DHS spotlighted the case of Rajinder Kumar, another Indian illegal immigrant trucker involved in a deadly crash in Oregon.
This is a pattern, not an anomaly.
And here's where it gets infuriating. How does an illegal immigrant get a commercial driver's license in the first place? Ask Governor Gavin Newsom. California's DMV has been issuing CDLs without bothering to verify immigration status, because of course they have. It's California. The state treats illegal immigration like a protected class and American lives like acceptable collateral damage.
There's proposed legislation — Dalilah's Law — that would prohibit states from issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants. The fact that we need a law to stop this tells you everything about how broken the system is. Common sense shouldn't require an act of Congress, but here we are.
ICE has lodged an immigration detainer against Singh, meaning when — if — California's justice system is done with him, federal immigration authorities want him. Singh's next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday, as reported by RedState.
The Supreme Court even weighed in on related trucking liability recently. In a unanimous 9-0 decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II LLC, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that states retain authority to regulate safety "with respect to motor vehicles." In other words, states have the power to keep dangerous, unlicensed drivers off their roads. California just chooses not to use it.
Two people woke up Tuesday morning with plans, families, lives. They didn't make it home. Not because of an accident — because of a policy. Biden's catch-and-release policy. A man was caught at the border, handed a notice to appear, and disappeared into the interior of a country that handed him the keys to an 18-wheeler. Every bureaucrat who signed off on that release has blood on their hands.


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