An illegal alien trucker high on drugs plowed into stopped traffic on a Southern California freeway, killing three Americans, and a judge gave him just five years — half the maximum sentence — for the carnage.
Jashanpreet Singh, 21, an Indian national who entered the country under the Biden administration, smashed his semi into seven vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Ontario in October 2025. An elderly couple and an Upland resident were killed. Singh pleaded guilty to three counts of felony vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. He faced up to 10 years. He got five.
This wasn't an accident. It was a policy outcome.
Singh held a California commercial driver's license — a document the state apparently upgraded for him in defiance of federal law. The U.S. Department of Transportation reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration unlawfully upgraded Singh's driving privileges from a restricted commercial license to an expanded one after Congress passed a law barring illegal migrants from holding commercial licenses. The upgrade was issued the day Singh turned 21, weeks before the deadly crash.
"It would have never happened if Gavin Newsom had followed our new rules. California broke the law and now three people are dead and two are hospitalized," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
A witness, Jason Calmelat, described the impact as an explosion. "It didn't stop. It didn't swerve. It didn't make any kind of maneuvers. It just went straight in," he told NBC Los Angeles. CHP Officer Rodrigo Jimenez called it one of those crashes with car parts everywhere and a hazardous material incident. "This could have been prevented if somebody had been paying attention sober," Jimenez said.
ICE lodged a detainer against Singh after his arrest. The Trump administration has since enacted a "zero releases" policy to ensure apprehended illegal migrants are detained or deported rather than released pending hearings — a direct response to cases like this one.
And Singh isn't the only illegal migrant trucker with a California-issued commercial license to kill. Harjinder Singh, also an Indian national, was accused of killing three people in Florida after allegedly making an illegal U-turn with an 18-wheeler through a restricted zone. He too was operating under a California-issued commercial license.
Meanwhile, the system continues to prioritize foreign nationals over American safety. A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida, John Steele, just ordered the release of Maikel Guerra Morales, a Cuban national convicted of hijacking a passenger plane in 2003 — holding a knife to the pilot's throat and forcing the flight to Key West. Morales finished his 22-year prison sentence for aircraft piracy in December. An immigration judge ordered his removal in 2023. But Steele ruled he must be released, citing a Supreme Court decision about foreign nationals who cannot be deported because no country will take them. Morales is now reportedly living in Miami with an ankle bracelet. He told Telemundo: "If the judge didn't get tough, ICE wouldn't have let me go."
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called it "yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump's mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country."
Three Americans dead in California because a state government decided federal law didn't apply. A convicted plane hijacker walking free in Miami because a Clinton appointee decided a Supreme Court technicality trumped public safety. The pattern is the same: American lives rendered cheap by a system that serves everyone except Americans.
