DHS blames California Gov. Gavin Newsom for allowing illegal immigrant who killed three people to get a truck license

Department of Homeland Security officials said Monday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is to blame after an illegal immigrant allegedly caused a crash in his semi-truck on a Florida highway that killed three Americans, Breitbart reported. Because of Newsom’s sanctuary state policies, illegal immigrant Harjinder Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver’s license and operate the truck that allegedly caused the fatal accident.

Singh, an Indian national, has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide for the crash that happened on a St. Lucie County, Florida, highway earlier this year after he made an illegal U-turn that caused a passenger vehicle to plow into his semi-trailer. Footage from the accident shared to X, formerly Twitter, appears to show Singh indifferent to the twisted wreckage he’s accused of causing.

“This driver facing justice is not enough. All the politicians who allowed him to get a license and stay here must be charged as accessories to this crime,” the End Wokeness account captioned the footage.

This driver facing justice is not enough.

All the politicians who allowed him to get a license and stay here must be charged as accessories to this crime.

https://t.co/tRaoEF3DBh

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 17, 2025

Newsom’s role

Singh should not have been in the U.S. in the first place, and he definitely shouldn’t have had the opportunity to get a Commercial Driver’s License. This was only possible due to Newsom’s 2022 expansion of a 2013 law that has helped more than a million illegal immigrants obtain driver’s licenses in the state in the last decade.

“Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom’s California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License — this state of governance is asinine. How many more innocent people must die before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with the safety of the American public?” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

“We pray for the victims and their families. Secretary Noem and DHS are working around the clock to protect the public and get these criminal illegal aliens out of America,” McLaughlin added. Newsom’s office tried to claim that it was the Trump administration’s fault because Singh was issued a work permit when he entered the U.S. in 2018 during the president’s first term.

McLaughlin vehemently disagreed with that assertion. “Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally, and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump Administration on September 14, 2020,” McLaughlin responded to Newsom’s post on X.

“It was later approved under the Biden Administration June 9, 2021. The state of California issues Commercial Driver’s Licenses. There is no national [commercial driver’s license],” McLaughlin added. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has Singh in custody while the case is adjudicated.

It Gets Worse

While Newsom’s office tries to downplay the role the governor’s laws played in the situation, the truth about Singh is even worse than initially reported. According to the New York Post, Singh had obtained a commercial license from California and Washington state despite not being able to understand English.

The Department of Transportation recently revealed that Singh couldn’t pass a basic fluency test after the April 12 crash, with him correctly answering only two of 12 questions the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration gave him. Moreover, the driver could only correctly identify one out of four highway signs shown to him in the test.

This means Singh was in violation of the law that mandates drivers with a CDL be “sufficiently” fluent in English to understand road signs, and yet he somehow obtained the license in both states. “This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a statement about the incident.

Singh’s attempted U-turn that caused the crash happened in a cut-through designated with a sign as an “Official Use Only” passage for emergency vehicles and was thus illegal. “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,” Duffy added.

Newsom absolutely created this dangerous situation with his policies, but there were failures all along the way that made this kind of tragedy all but inevitable. Illegal immigrants should not be issued driver’s licenses to operate massive vehicles that have the power to crush a passenger car, but it’s clear Democrats like Newsom have as little regard for innocent life as Singh apparently does.