Car accidents happen. It’s a fact of life. The reason they happen can be boiled down to three primary causes: driver error, environmental factors, and mechanical failure.
Of those three accident-causing factors, the vast majority of accidents are attributable to driver error. A driver makes a bad decision, and an accident results. This is also why driver education classes exist, and why one needs to be licensed in order to legally drive a vehicle.
Furthermore, to drive commercially, specifically to drive a tractor-trailer, one must acquire a commercial driver’s license, or CDL. And the requirements to earn a CDL are more stringent. A driver’s license, though easily obtained and common, is a privilege, not a right.
That brings us to a traffic accident in Florida, wherein an illegal alien driving a tractor-trailer attempted an illegal U-turn that ended up costing the lives of three people. While not as heinous and malicious as some of the high-profile murders perpetrated by illegal aliens, the Florida accident serves to once again highlight the problem with illegal immigration.
The immediate question is what the driver, who has been identified as an illegal alien from India, Harjinder Singh, was thinking. Why in the world would he think that executing a U-turn in a semi-truck across three lanes of interstate was even a remotely plausible maneuver?
According to investigators, Singh was given an English Language Proficiency assessment, which he failed spectacularly, providing correct responses to just two of the 12 verbal questions, and he was able to accurately identify just one of four road signs.
It would seem self-evident that to qualify for a driver’s license within the United States, an individual would have to be able to speak and read English. So, how in the world did a non-English speaking illegal alien acquire a CDL and, in turn, get a job driving tractor-trailers across the country?
According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally via Mexico back in 2019, got a full-term CDL in July 2023 in Washington state. In June of last year, California issued him a limited-term CDL. And most recently, on July 3, New Mexico police failed to give him an English exam after he received a speeding ticket.
What all three states have in common is that they are blue states that Democrats have long run, and in the cases of both California and Washington, are “sanctuary” states. Furthermore, Democrat leadership in those states has objected to Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration has used this sad incident to raise an English-speaking requirement for all commercial drivers. “States MUST FOLLOW THE RULES,” Duffy asserted. “If they had, this driver would NEVER have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. The failures here are despicable. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles.”
This incident underscores once again why laws exist and the government’s primary role is to enforce these laws for the good of society. The willful lawlessness that the Biden administration embraced when it came to our borders and immigration system has repeatedly allowed for terrible events such as this to take place. Biden’s policies frequently proved to harm the very citizens he was elected to serve and protect.
