On May 19, 2026, a truck driven by a man named Manvir Singh slammed into stopped traffic on California Route 99 near Lodi, killing two young men aged 16 and 20, and sending five others in separate vehicles to the hospital. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Singh entered the United States illegally in 2023, and the issuance of his commercial driver’s license (CDL) by the state of California is under investigation.
A few weeks later, on June 10, a gentleman named Manmeet Singh, recently of Sacramento, was behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler hauling mail for the United States Postal Service when he crashed on Interstate 5 near the town of Willows, California. This Mr. Singh had no valid CDL, which means he may not have been trained whatsoever in how to operate his truck properly. It also turns out that Yaari Transport LLC, the trucking company he worked for, has a long history of operating shoddy equipment and, contrary to federal regulations, employing drivers who are illiterate in English.
If all of this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Truck crashes involving illegal immigrants, or those who were issued employment authorization documents in a suspicious manner by the Biden Administration, are now a regular feature of our news and social media commentary. What makes these two incidents noteworthy, however, is not the particular pattern of poorly trained and incompetent “drivers” we see repeated across so many crashes, but that these two took place nearly one year after the Trump Administration began to do something about them. They present a number of questions about how deep the problem is and whether the new enforcement measures are effective.
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