Staff Reports
The carnage on Interstate 10 outside Ontario on October 21, 2025, was a horror show Americans won’t forget: a speeding semi plowed into stalled traffic, igniting a fiery, eight-vehicle pileup that left three people dead and four others wounded. Authorities arrested 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter, and dashcam footage shows a tractor-trailer that never slowed before impact. This was not an accident in the ordinary sense — it was the predictable outcome of lax enforcement and policy choices that put dangerous drivers on our roads.
Federal officials say Singh is an undocumented Indian national who first crossed into the United States in 2022 and that ICE has lodged a detainer following his arrest, underscoring the immigration angle to this tragedy. Victims’ families deserve answers about how someone allegedly in the country without authorization ended up behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler on a packed freeway. Democrats who pretend border policy has nothing to do with public safety can’t have it both ways when the Department of Homeland Security is forced to step in.
Worse, state licensing questions are exploding into public view: California records and federal reporting indicate Singh held a commercial driver’s license issued by the state, and the White House press office has been forced to confirm that state-issued credentials were at play. If California’s DMV is handing out CDLs without proper vetting of immigration status or language competency, that’s not compassion — it’s negligence that costs American lives. Parents picking up the pieces after a freeway inferno don’t want lectures in virtue-signaling; they want accountability and safety restored.
This crash didn’t happen in isolation. Lawmakers and transportation experts are pointing to a string of similar tragedies — including a deadly Florida crash earlier this year involving a trucker whose English proficiency and testing history raised red flags — as proof of a nationwide problem with how some states certify commercial drivers. The federal push to tighten English-language proficiency and license verification at weigh stations is a commonsense reaction to prevent unqualified or unvetted drivers from turning highways into kill zones. If you care about children on bikes and families on road trips, this should terrify you.
Washington is finally waking up and officials from DHS and the Transportation Department are publicly chastising states that issue licenses without proper checks, while some federal leaders are threatening funding consequences for states that flout safety rules. This is about more than politics: it’s about whether a mother grieving her spouse and children gets justice and whether the next convoy of commercial trucks is operated by someone who can read a road sign and pass a sobriety test. Conservatives should demand swift criminal prosecution, immediate immigration proceedings, and federal-state cooperation so no one else suffers because of political experiments called sanctuary policies.
Americans are tired of policies that prioritize ideology over the safety of working families. Governors who hand out commercial privileges without enforcement and administrations that ignore border security have turned our highways into a risk to everyday life. It’s time to restore common-sense rules: enforce the law at the border, require real English and safety proficiency for CDL holders, and make states answer when their policies endanger American lives. Hardworking patriots want roads that are safe, not laboratories for failed policy.
