It’s a tale of two truck drivers, both immigrants to North American countries, that differ greatly in many respects.
Both, however, raise a fundamental question about the nature of immigration and public safety: Namely, why do the cultural chieftains of the West feel obligated to compromise the latter to promote as much of the former as possible — and all in the name of national self-loathing?
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, for one, is an Indian immigrant to Canada who was convicted in a truck crash that killed 16 players and staff from a youth hockey team in 2018. He got there legally.
Harjinder Singh, meanwhile, is an illegal immigrant to the United States who is charged in a crash that killed three people in Florida. Despite the fact that he wasn’t here legally, he was able to obtain a commercial driver’s license in the People’s Republic of California. He faces three counts of vehicular homicide after he made what authorities say was a profoundly dangerous U-turn on the Florida Turnpike using an “Official Use Only” median crossing.
“The truck’s trailer blocked all lanes of oncoming traffic as it nosed over the median — with footage from inside its cab showing a black minivan driving toward it with no time to stop and nowhere to turn to avoid a collision,” the New York Post reported.
That case has become the subject of a national debate over the effects of illegal immigration and the harm that can be wreaked by states like California that simply don’t care about the danger that, say, a driver whose knowledge of American road laws or even of the English language might pose.
You may not remember it, but the tragedy Sidhu caused was an international story, as well. As the U.K.’s Daily Mail noted in a Wednesday report, he “barreled through a stop sign at 53 to 60 mph” on April 6, 2018, hitting a bus carrying the players and staff of the Humboldt Broncos in a rural area of the province of Saskatchewan.
Sidhu, then 29, pleaded guilty to numerous charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily injury. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
He spent just four years behind bars, however, and was released on parole. Then, he went back to live with his Canadian wife, with whom he fathered a child who has health complications.
Now, he’s fighting deportation to India on humanitarian grounds, arguing that his child’s heart and lung conditions, as well as his Canadian wife, should be grounds to reinstate his permanent residency in Canada.
That residency was revoked last year, and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ordered him deported.
Now, it’s worth noting that this doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t get deported. As Canada’s Global News noted, he’s tried this gambit before the Canada Border Services Agency turned him over to the country’s Immigration and Refugee Board to decide whether he was deportable.
full story at https://www.westernjournal.com/immigrant-truck-driver-deadly-crash-killed-16-jail-serving-half-sentence-fights-extradition/
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