What is this country coming to? Things need to change.
Now an illegal immigrant got a slap on the wrist with this shocking sentence.
He ended Three People. Today Was Sentencing Day.
Jashanpreet Singh was 21 years old and behind the wheel of a semi-truck on Interstate 10 in Ontario, California, on October 21, 2025. He was traveling at high speed toward stopped traffic. He didn’t brake. He didn’t swerve. As one eyewitness put it: “It didn’t stop. It didn’t swerve. It didn’t make any kind of maneuvers. It just went straight in.”
Eight vehicles were destroyed. Three people died — including a 54-year-old man in a Toyota Tacoma and two occupants in a Kia Sorento. Among the dead was Clarence Nelson, 76, an assistant basketball coach at Pomona High School, and his wife Lisa Nelson, 69. Four others were injured. The truck went off the road and caught fire. Singh jumped out.
Tuesday — the same day President Trump was announcing his Iran ultimatum and the House was voting on the Sunshine Protection Act — was sentencing day at Rancho Cucamonga Superior Court. Singh had pleaded guilty in June to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. The DUI charge was dropped when his toxicology results came back negative. The sentence he received was widely characterized as shockingly inadequate for the deaths of three human beings.
This is not, it bears repeating, a story about race or national origin. It is a story about a completely broken system of accountability — one that begins long before the crash on I-10 and runs through every institution that should have prevented it.
Every Safeguard Failed
Jashanpreet Singh entered the United States illegally in 2022 from India, crossing the southern border. The Biden administration processed him and released him. His immigration status did not prevent California from issuing him a commercial driver’s license — the DMV confirms he had one that was valid through October 2026. The federal government had approved his Employment Authorization Documents multiple times.
A DOT review, completed after the crash, concluded Singh never should have been issued that CDL in the first place, due to failures in California’s licensing system. He was operating a commercial vehicle — a weapon weighing tens of thousands of pounds — on one of the busiest interstates in the country, without the qualifications that were supposed to be required before the license was granted.
The pattern is not isolated. In February 2026, Sukhdeep Singh — no relation — was charged in Indiana after allegedly running a red light and ending 64-year-old Terry Schultz. He was in the country illegally and had received an Indiana CDL in May 2025. That same month, a Kyrgyzstani national caused a head-on crash in Jay County, Indiana, that ended four people including members of an Amish community. In May 2026, Manvir Singh caused a fatal multi-vehicle crash near Lodi, California, ending two people and fleeing on foot before arrest. In July, a Uzbek national allegedly ended a 21-year-old UMass Lowell soccer player in Ohio.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been the most vocal official demanding systemic reform, calling out non-domiciled CDL policies and English proficiency requirements that have functionally allowed unqualified foreign nationals to operate commercial vehicles on American roads. He has backed legislation — “Dalilah’s Law” — that would revoke CDLs in cases like these.
The Question That Demands An Answer
Three families attended sentencing Tuesday. Clarence Nelson spent decades coaching young people at Pomona High School. His wife Lisa was with him in the car. They are gone because a system designed to ensure that the people operating 80,000-pound commercial vehicles on public interstates are qualified and legally present in the country failed at every step — the border, the immigration processing, the employment authorization review, the CDL issuance — and then failed again at sentencing.
The sentence Singh received will be recorded, analyzed, and cited in the weeks ahead. Whatever the number, it cannot give the Nelson family their lives back. It cannot restore what was taken from the other victims. And it cannot undo the institutional failures that put Singh behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle in the first place. Those failures are systemic, documented, and — if Congress passes the reforms Duffy is demanding — preventable.
