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Illegal Alien Got a Commercial Trucking License in Massachusetts — Now a Pennsylvania State Trooper Is Dead

Michael Pahira Jr. spent 19 years protecting the people of Pennsylvania as a state trooper. He was 44 years old. On Wednesday morning, while investigating an accident on the highway, he was struck and killed by a semi-truck driven by a 33-year-old Haitian national named Michael Bon.

Bon is an illegal alien. He entered the United States through the Biden administration's CHNV mass parole program in 2024. He received a commercial driver's license from the state of Massachusetts in March 2025.

So let's walk through the sequence here, because every single step of it involved someone in government deciding this was fine. A Haitian national enters the country through a parole program that was never meant to serve as a backdoor immigration pipeline. He lands in Massachusetts, where the state hands him a CDL — a commercial driver's license, the kind you need to operate an 18-wheeler on American highways. And then, on the morning of July 2nd, that truck slams into a state trooper on a Pennsylvania road.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin confirmed the details: "DHS confirms to Fox News that the semi-truck driver charged with killing PA State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr. in a crash in PA on Wednesday is a Haitian illegal alien." Bon is currently being held on $700,000 bond.

The FBI released a statement that read, "The FBI sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Trooper Michael Pahira." Condolences. From the same federal government that paroled Bon into the country in the first place.

As reported by Townhall, the CHNV program — which granted parole status to nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — was one of the Biden administration's signature immigration workarounds. It allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into the country with minimal vetting under the theory that "legal pathways" would reduce border crossings. Whether it reduced crossings is debatable. What isn't debatable is that it put Michael Bon behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle on a Pennsylvania highway.

The CDL question is the one nobody in Massachusetts wants to answer. A commercial driver's license isn't a library card. It requires documentation, testing, a verified identity. The fact that a foreign national here on temporary parole status was able to obtain one tells you everything about how seriously Massachusetts takes the distinction between "authorized to be here" and "authorized to drive a 40-ton vehicle here."

You could argue the parole program was designed with good intentions. You could argue Massachusetts was following its own licensing rules. You could argue that accidents happen regardless of immigration status. All of those arguments sound reasonable in a conference room. They sound a lot less reasonable when a 44-year-old trooper with nearly two decades of service is dead on the side of a highway.

The CHNV program created the entry. Massachusetts created the credential. The federal government created the framework that made both possible. Trooper Pahira's family gets condolences.

That's three layers of government between a parole stamp and a funeral.

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