The Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking the arrest of an illegal immigrant serving as a truck driver in California who killed three people during a DUI accident.
Jashanpreet Singh, an Indian national, was arrested by San Bernardino County officials on charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence. He was released into the country under the Biden administration upon first entering the United States in 2022.
“It is a terrible tragedy three innocent people lost their lives due to the reckless open border policies that allowed an illegal alien to be released into the U.S. and drive an 18-wheeler on America’s highways,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “This accident follows a disturbing trend of illegal aliens driving 18 wheelers and semi-trucks on America’s roads. Earlier this week, DHS highlighted another fatal accident in Indiana caused by an illegal alien driving a semi-truck. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is working day-in and day-out to make America’s roads safe again.”
News of the arrest detainer follows Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filing a lawsuit against California and Washington in the Supreme Court, alleging the states’ granting of Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to illegal immigrants has endangered U.S. citizens.
“California’s and Washington’s open defiance of federal immigration laws is well documented. Both States routinely frustrate and hinder federal law enforcement from addressing the immigration crisis and the destruction that accompanies it,” the filing says. Resistance to federal law enforcement includes “failing to honor the federal safety regulations regarding the commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) needed to operate eighteen wheelers and other commercial motor vehicles.”
The lawsuit declares that California’s and Washington’s “decision to endanger their own citizens is reprehensible. But commercial drivers routinely cross state lines, endangering citizens of other States.”
