An illegal alien who killed three Americans when his semi-truck plowed into slow-moving traffic received less than five years in prison — a sentence that confirms a two-tier justice system where foreign nationals get leniency and American lives are priced at a discount.
Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national, was sentenced Tuesday to four years and eight months after pleading guilty to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Singh's semi-truck slammed into vehicles on Interstate 10 in San Bernardino County in October 2025. Dashcam footage showed he never hit the brakes. Three people died outright. Several others were injured.
The punishment drew immediate and deserved outrage. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called it a "slap on the wrist," vowing his agency would not stop "until ALL illegal alien truckers are put out of business and held accountable." The Department of Homeland Security said ICE agents are standing by to arrest Singh upon his release, "so he is never allowed back on our roads to take another innocent life."
Singh crossed the southern border in California's El Centro Sector in March 2022 and was released into the country under the Biden administration pending an immigration hearing, according to federal sources cited by Fox News. He then obtained a California commercial driver's license in June 2025 — despite federal officials warning the state about compliance issues with non-citizen CDL holders and directing California to pause new licenses.
Breitbart reported that Singh should have been disqualified under the Department of Transportation's emergency policy. California officials claimed his eligibility was based on federally approved employment authorization documents. According to Breitbart, Singh was suspected of DUI, but a toxicology report came back clean; prosecutors allege he fell asleep at the wheel.
The rot runs deeper than one judge's sentence. Duffy announced in October that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would withhold over $40 million from California after finding the state "failed to comply with the Department's English Language Proficiency standards." California is the only state that refuses to ensure big rig drivers can read road signs and communicate with law enforcement. During an April debate among California gubernatorial candidates, several Democrats running said English proficiency tests for big rig drivers are racist.
The two-tier system extends beyond California highways. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz this week questioned the Trump administration's deportation of a convicted pedophile to Laos, suggesting it didn't make Americans safer. Tou Lue Vang, a 42-year-old Laotian national who entered the U.S. illegally in 1994, was convicted in 2006 of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl between 2002 and 2004. Walz, along with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, voted to pardon Vang on the state Board of Pardons. Secretary of State Marco Rubio overruled the state pardon, revoking Vang's legal status, and ICE deported him last week. According to DHS, Vang justified his crimes as "a cultural thing" and said the girl was just as guilty.
Three Americans dead on a California highway. A killer who never should have been in the country, never should have been behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound truck. A sentence that works out to roughly 19 months per life taken. The system didn't just fail once — it failed at every checkpoint, from the border to the DMV to the courtroom. The question is whether anyone with power intends to dismantle it, or whether American lives will keep getting priced at a discount.
