The Biden administration caught him at the border, launched him into the nation, and walked away. Now two people are lifeless on a California freeway, and the person behind the wheel of that semi-truck is an unlawful immigrant from India who never ought to have been there.

Authorities arrested 24-year-old Manvir Singh following a lethal multi-vehicle crash on Tuesday on northbound Highway 99 close to Lodi, California. The California Highway Patrol responded around 12:20 p.m. after Singh’s big rig jackknifed, skidded off the highway, and slammed into a guardrail, triggering a collision involving three other autos. Two people have been killed. Singh allegedly fled the scene on foot before being taken into custody.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin broke the immigration angle on Wednesday, confirming through DHS that Singh is an Indian national who crossed the border illegally close to Arizona in 2023 and was caught and launched by the Biden administration. ICE has since lodged an immigration detainer with local law enforcement. 

Melugin posted the full particulars in a thread on Twitter/X:

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the semi truck driver arrested for killing two people in a hit & run crash close to Sacramento, CA yesterday is an Indian unlawful alien who was caught & launched at the AZ border by the Biden admin in 2023. His title is Manvir Singh, and he’s… pic.twitter.com/Jy9AVHTWof

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 21, 2026

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the semi truck driver arrested for killing two people in a hit & run crash close to Sacramento, CA yesterday is an Indian unlawful alien who was caught & launched at the AZ border by the Biden admin in 2023. His title is Manvir Singh, and he’s now going through fees in San Joaquin County, CA for vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit & run ensuing in death. He allegedly tried to flee the scene on foot after the crash. ICE has positioned a detainer on him with local law enforcement.

This is the fourth Indian unlawful alien truck driver with the last title ‘Singh’ that we have lined who has been arrested for killing harmless people in crashes around the nation, going back to last 12 months.

No particulars on his CDL yet, or if he even has one. More to come.

Singh is going through fees of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit-and-run ensuing in death or injury, and resisting a police officer. His bail is set at $185,000, and he’s anticipated to seem in court on Thursday. The victims haven’t yet been publicly recognized. 

Shortly after, Melugin posted a second update sharing DHS’s formal assertion on the crash:

DHS assertion to FOX:

“This criminal illegal alien from India should never have been behind the wheel of a semi-truck and allowed to kill two innocent people in a multi-vehicle crash in California,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “He is now charged with vehicular…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 21, 2026

“This criminal illegal alien from India should never have been behind the wheel of a semi-truck and allowed to kill two innocent people in a multi-vehicle crash in California,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. ‘He is now charged with vehicular manslaughter, hit and run ensuing in death or injury, and resisting a police officer. This is yet another instance of why unlawful aliens shouldn’t be working vehicles on American highways. We need Congress to go Dalilah’s Law to prohibit states from granting unlawful aliens industrial driver’s licenses.”

The timing of this crash is impossible to ignore. It comes less than a week after the Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9-0 ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II LLC that freight brokers may be held liable in state court when they negligently rent unsafe trucking corporations. The determination, written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, rejected the trucking industry’s long-standing argument that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA) shields brokers from such lawsuits.

“A claim that one company negligently hired another to transport goods is not preempted by the FAAAA because States retain authority to regulate safety ‘with respect to motor vehicles’ under the Act,” Barrett wrote. 

The ruling “resolved a break up among federal appeals courts” and is predicted to considerably increase legal publicity for brokers who cut corners when vetting the carriers they rent.

The query of whether or not a broker knew, or ought to have identified, about a provider’s security document and vetting practices will now be squarely before juries in state courts across the nation. That might open the door to broader scrutiny of how drivers are employed and credentialed.

Read More: The Supreme Court Just Opened a Door the Trucking Industry Wanted Kept Shut

That convergence of points, unlawful immigrant drivers, lax CDL oversight, and now expanded broker legal responsibility, is fueling an intensifying debate about who bears duty when people die on American roads.

That debate had already been building. In December 2025, DHS spotlighted another case involving an unlawful immigrant truck driver from India who allegedly triggered a deadly crash in Oregon after receiving a industrial driver’s license in California.

“Rajinder Kumar, a criminal illegal alien from India, was released into our country under the Biden administration and issued a commercial driver’s license by Gavin Newsom’s Department of Motor Vehicles. How many more senseless tragedies must take place before sanctuary politicians stop allowing illegal aliens to dangerously operate semi-trucks on America’s roads? Our prayers are with William and Jennifer’s families. Under Secretary Noem, ICE will continue its efforts to get illegal alien truck drivers off America’s highways.”

DHS linked that Oregon crash to a string of other deadly trucking incidents involving unlawful immigrant drivers from India, including collisions in Florida and California that left a number of people lifeless or critically injured.

Dalilah’s Law, named after a younger California woman severely injured in a separate trucking crash, would prohibit states from issuing industrial driver’s licenses to unlawful immigrants. DHS has repeatedly called on Congress to go it. Given that Melugin is now reporting this as the fourth Indian unlawful immigrant truck driver with the surname “Singh” to be arrested for killing people on American roads, the stress on Capitol Hill is only going to grow.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, unlawful immigration into our great nation has just about stopped. Despite the unconventional left’s lies, new laws wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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