Illegal Immigrant Kills Three [semi-satire]

In April, illegal Harjinder Singh made an illegal u-turn on a Florida turnpike and caused a crash that killed three occupants of a minivan in the lane to the left of his semi-truck. Hoping to bolster his chances of running for president in 2028, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) pointed out that "Trump was president when Singh illegally entered the US. His failure to secure the border enabled this tragedy to occur."

What Newsom failed to mention was that it was California that illegally granted Singh a commercial driver's license. When Singh was tested for English language proficiency by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the April 12 crash he was only able to answer two of 12 questions correctly and could only identify one out of four traffic signs shown to him.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the crash "a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. 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."

Newsom's press office responded, admitting that "issuing a license to Singh was a mistake, but we couldn't have made this mistake if Trump hadn't granted him a work permit. Besides, research consistently shows that issuing driver's licenses for undocumented people improves public safety."

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin pointed out that "Singh's federal work permit application was rejected on September 14, 2020 during the first Trump term. It was granted during the Biden Administration on June 9, 2021. Also, California law requires that a person must be lawfully in the US in order to be issued a Commercial Drivers License. Declaring the state to be a sanctuary for illegal immigrants doesn't cancel this statutory requirement."

Why am I not surprised?

April 6, 2018, will stand as a day of infamy and dishonour to Canaduh's failed immigration policies and failed trucking policies. On that day, 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team were killed, and 13 injured, when a semi, driven by Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, ran a stop sign, an oversized sign, marked with a flashing red light, at 96 km/hr (60 mph), crashing into a bus carrying 29, including the driver. The highway the bus was on, had the right of way, a 'through' highway.

Sidhu was an immigrant from India, had been driving less than one year, had only been driving the rig for 2 weeks, and had only 2 weeks of training on the rig!

The owner of the trucking company (Adesh Deol Trucking Ltd.), Sukhmander Singh, was also charged with "two counts of failure to require a daily log, two counts of keeping multiple daily logs for a single day, three counts of failure to monitor the driver's compliance with the relevant regulation, and one count of failure to have or follow a written safety program". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash The company owner was fined $5,000 CDN, and the driver spent less than five years in jail, less than 6 months per death. (For comparison, several of the organizers of the PEACEFUL truckers COVID protests that shut down downtown d'Ottawa, is STILL awaiting sentencing, after serving MONTHS in jail!)

Immigrant Sikhs have mostly taken over Canaduh's transportation industry, not just the trucking industry, but municipal bus/metro systems, also. "DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!" </sarc>

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