Driving While Illiterate: How Sanctuary Cities Are Killing the Rest of Us
On August 12, illegal immigrant Harjinder Singh made an illegal u-turn on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County. He couldn’t complete the turn, so his truck was stuck, blocking all lanes. A Chrysler mini-van smashed into the truck, and all three Americans inside were killed. Singh was arrested for vehicular homicide.
His Commercial Driver’s License had been issued in California, which proudly calls itself a sanctuary state, in the habit of giving driver’s licenses to non-English speakers who can’t read the road signs. Call it driving while illiterate. According to Christy Noem’s HHS, before getting the CDL, Singh failed an English Language Proficiency assessment, only able to answer two of the 12 verbal questions correctly. He also failed to pass the traffic sign test, identifying only one of four highway traffic signs. Presumably that includes the “No U-Turn” sign visible on the Florida Turnpike.
All this makes clear the policies of sanctuary cities and states — signaling liberal virtue, protecting illegals to preserve Dem political power — are killing the rest of us. One American, calling for DMV officials who issued the license to be prosecuted as well, said on X, “I’m tired of leftists enabling the murder of the rest of us.” Said another, “Gavin Newsom has blood on his hands.” Maybe that’s why the networks are ignoring the story — all in for the Dems, even as their audience cratered.
And it’s not like we weren’t warned.
In 2023, a California driver, carrying 11 illegal immigrants in a human smuggling ring, hit speeds of 100 mph trying to elude police. He ran a red light in Ozona, TX, killing 71-year-old Maria Tambunga and her 7-year-old granddaughter Emilia.
And on April 28, four months ago, President Trump issued an executive order instructing Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to ensure all “commercial drivers meet established English-proficiency standards to safely navigate roads, comply with regulations, and communicate effectively with authorities and employers.”
It is popular among that fading group of moderate Dems to say that they are all for deporting criminal aliens, but not everyday working illegals. “It freaks people out,” Joe Rogan said recently, calling ICE raids against day laborers “insane.”
But the increasing tally of road kill at the hands of illegal “laborers,” the sense of entitlement when ICE arrests them — “but I’m a working man!” — the crowds waving Mexican flags to protest the arrests, chanting in Spanish, “We are not going anywhere!” — is an affront to the public square and a danger to law enforcement. Add the shocking defiance of liberal political figures — hello Karen Bass — who alert immigrants to ICE’s arrival, and the cruel habit of other Dems who doxx ICE agents — all suggests that we have long since passed the point of polite deportations.
Nate Morris, candidate for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky, seems to be at the spear of this sentiment. Or anyway he thinks it could win him the GOP primary.
If you’re wondering how he got here, Singh crossed the border in Mexico in 2018 and was, re the New York Post, selected by the first Trump administration for fast-track deportion. But Singh made an asylum claim — fearing for his life in India, apparently — and was released on a $5,000 bond in January 2019. The Trump administration denied him a work permit, but in 2021, the new Biden administration gave him one. He got CDLs from California and Washington, despite his illiteracy. More drivers with no allegiance to America and no proficiency in English are in the pipeline.
Singh was arraigned in California. Today Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent his lieutenant governor — Green Beret Lt. Gov. Jay Collins — to pick him up, Chuck Norris style, and extradite him back to Florida. “We will throw the book at him.”
Or as the DHS put it:
