Indian national Manvir Singh, 24, got a fast pass into the United States after the Biden administration released him at the border in 2023.
Over a year after the state of California issued him a commercial driver’s license, Singh caused a fatal collision while behind the wheel of a big rig in Lodi, California, Tuesday, according to the Department of Transportation. Three vehicles were slowing down to come to a complete stop when Singh allegedly failed to stop behind them, causing a multi-car pileup, CBS News reported.
The deceased victims were identified as 20-year-old Clark James Fojas and the other was a juvenile, according to ABC10.
First responders transported five others to the hospital, two of whom sustained major injuries, according to the local news outlet.
🚨California issued this driver a commercial driver’s license in March 2025🚨
In February of this year, I issued a rule to stop unqualified, untrained foreign drivers like this accused killer from getting CDLs to drive on America’s roads.
RIGHT NOW: @FMCSA investigators are… https://t.co/j7EwCRzMF5
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 21, 2026
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office arrested Singh, who is charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, resisting/obstructing a police officer, and hit-and-run resulting in injury or death, according to jail records. His bail was set at $185,000.
“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,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Wednesday.
“This is yet another example of why illegal aliens should not be operating trucks on American highways. We need Congress to pass Dalilah’s Law to prohibit states from granting illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses,” Bis added.
Federal investigators are now probing “how this illegal got his CDL and will investigate the trucking company who employed this driver,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday.
Duffy renewed his calls for Congress to pass Dalilah’s law, named after Dalilah Coleman, a young girl who survived a similar collision but was left with life-altering injuries. She was five years old at the time of the crash.
“Dalilah’s law would have revoked this illegal trucker’s license. Congress must pass Dalilah’s Law NOW,” he said.
Singh is set to appear in court Thursday afternoon, according to ABC10.
The Trump administration has tagged California as one of the major culprits in handing out trucking licenses to illegal immigrants.
Partap Singh, the illegal immigrant from India accused of injuring Coleman, was also given a commercial driver’s license by the Golden State.
For months, Coleman’s father, Marcus, a trucker himself, has been trying to reach Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom but has yet to receive any response.
In February, Marcus shared his frustrations with the lack of accountability on Newsom’s part.
“How do you not see Dalilah? How do you allow politics to blind you from a five-year-old girl at the time whose life is forever changed, and your only answer is it’s the federal government,” Marcus told The Daily Wire at the time.
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