A fiery chain-reaction crash on the I-10 near Ontario left three Americans dead and multiple others wounded, a tragedy that has left hardworking families and citizens demanding answers. Video from the scene shows an 18-wheeler plowing into stopped traffic and igniting a horrific pileup that emergency crews struggled to contain. The driver, identified as 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh, was arrested at the scene and has since become the center of a bitter national debate.
Federal officials and local prosecutors say Singh was taken into custody and an ICE detainer was filed, with Homeland Security investigators indicating he entered the country in 2022, raising urgent questions about how someone without a lawful status was operating an interstate commercial rig. This is not a paper-pushing dispute — it is about real Americans who are dead because systems meant to protect them were gamed or ignored. Citizens deserve to know whether state policies handed a CDL to someone who should not have had one, and why federal warnings about noncompliant licensing were apparently ignored.
Those warnings were hardly theoretical: the Department of Transportation has publicly flagged California’s licensing of non-domiciled commercial drivers and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has pointedly blamed California leadership for failing to follow federal emergency rules designed to keep dangerous drivers off our highways. Even the White House press secretary acknowledged California issued a commercial driver’s license to this individual, which only deepens the scandal and the need for accountability. Democrats who run sanctuary states can’t keep shrugging while taxpayers pick up the tab for their reckless policies.
Legal filings show prosecutors initially charged Singh with DUI and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment where a judge ordered him held without bail. Authorities say the crash investigation found Singh failed to stop his tractor-trailer before causing the deadly impact that crushed innocent people in ordinary cars. The county DA has since amended the complaint as the investigation continues, but make no mistake: criminal responsibility for lives lost will be pursued.
In a significant update, toxicology results released by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office showed no tested substances in Singh’s blood, prompting prosecutors to drop the felony DUI allegation while pursuing three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and related reckless-driving charges. That development should not be used as an excuse to let state policies off the hook; whether by negligence, incompetence, or a systemic failure to enforce eligibility rules, three Americans are dead. Families deserve justice and a full accounting from every level of government that failed them.
Enough is enough: California’s insistence on policies that allow noncitizens to obtain commercial credentials despite federal directives is now a public-safety crisis, and there must be consequences. If federal audits find systemic errors and noncompliance, Congress and the Administration should withhold funds until the violations are fixed and state officials answer for putting people at risk. Law and order means protecting American lives first — and any politician who values ideology over safety must be held accountable at the ballot box and in the courts.
To the grieving families and all Americans who expect safe roads, we owe action not platitudes: tighter enforcement at the border, respect for federal licensing rules, and an end to sanctuary policies that export danger across state lines. Media and elites can try to soften the story with nuance, but everyday people see what happened and know who pays the price when laws are ignored. Stand with the victims, demand real accountability, and make clear that no political experiment is worth American lives.
