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The Indian illegal immigrant truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed three people in Florida crossed into the U.S. through California in 2018, and was arrested by Border Patrol two days later. Harjinder Singh, 28, faces deportation and three counts of homicide " negligent manslaughter/vehicle following the incident on the Florida Turnpike in Fort Pierce on Tuesday. Following his arrest on Sept. 20, 2018, near San Ysidro, California, "he has been pending immigrant proceedings since," a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement to Fox News said.

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I wonder what happens to the employer who illegally hired him into this job...

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 11:38 AM | Reply

"While operating a commercial semi-truck with a trailer, Singh allegedly attempted an illegal U-turn while driving on the highway. This resulted in the trailer jackknifing and colliding with a minivan " leaving all three of the minivan's passengers dead, according to officials."

If you're looking for an employer to face some consequences......here you go.

Negligent Entrustment.

But it's going to be civil only....policy limits and perhaps some punitive attached....which is not covered by insurance.

#2 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 11:44 AM | Reply

Can we get a criminal background check on the dead people, or were they not black?

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 11:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I wonder what happens to the state of CA who issued an illegal a CDL?

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-08-18 11:48 AM | Reply

I wonder what happens to the state of CA who issued an illegal a CDL?
#4 | Posted by gracieamazed

Probably nothing, since that's perfectly legal.
What do you think should happen?

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 11:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#1,

There must be a portal to hell here somewhere, because I agree with Snoofy.

#6 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-18 11:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Who in the hell took over Snoofy's account?

#7 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-18 11:50 AM | Reply

There must be a portal to hell here somewhere, because I agree with Snoofy.
#6 | Posted by boaz

Oh we agree on a lot. Neither of us wants toive around poor black people, for example.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 11:52 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom's California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver's License"this state of governance is asinine," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News

How does a government, with a straight face, go after an employer for hiring someone after they issued them a drivers license?

Sounds like the government wants this person here as well? Wants to take advantage of their presence. their contributions, etc.

Did the republican chamber of commerce fund Newsom's campaign so he would issue these drivers licenses? That's the reason offered to explain why local law enforcement does nothing to the employers.

How did the republican (that's a joke...it's california) chamber of commerce convince the State of California to do this?

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 11:52 AM | Reply

Florida does not issue illegals a CDL. CA should be more like Florida.

#10 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-08-18 11:53 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

DeSantis would sell his grandma for California's economy.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-18 11:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 6

Did the republican chamber of commerce fund Newsom's campaign so he would issue these drivers licenses? That's the reason offered to explain why local law enforcement does nothing to the employers.
#9 | Posted by eberly

Probably not through that precise mechanism.

But there's no doubt that California Republicans understand the need for people to drive California Trucks full of California Food.

Maybe ask one of your Kansas farmers about it?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 11:56 AM | Reply

-But there's no doubt that California Republicans understand the need for people to drive California Trucks full of California Food.

Agreed. There's also no doubt that California Democrats understand it equally.

Unless you're going to suggest California Democrats aren't smart enough to understand that need.

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 12:04 PM | Reply

#11

DeSantis just handed his wife a multi-million dollar state contract. It's good to be King in Florida.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 12:09 PM | Reply

14

easy there.....you're very very very sensitive about obfuscation of the thread topic....LOL

Don't go taking this somewhere else. that's a big no no in corkyworld.

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 12:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#15

Not an obfuscation from the subject of the thread, a comment to Alex in #11.

You're not drinking THIS early are you?

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 12:13 PM | Reply

maybe.....

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 12:15 PM | Reply

"he has been pending immigrant proceedings since"

Anyone Republicans want to say there's blood on Trump's hands, for letting this known illegal roam free?

Anyone at all.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 12:30 PM | Reply


I wonder what happens to the employer who illegally hired him into this job...
#1 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

He wasn't illegal to work, he had work authorization, thats how he received his CDL.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 12:32 PM | Reply

Anyone Republicans want to say there's blood on Trump's hands, for letting this known illegal roam free?

California allowed him to "earn" his CDL. It allows non citizens to get certified.

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 12:33 PM | Reply

-But there's no doubt that California Republicans understand the need for people to drive California Trucks full of California Food.,

My guess is those Republicans didn't want illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 12:35 PM | Reply

Just watched the video.

The truck drivers reaction is emotionless. Like he could care less. Even the video afterwards there's no remorse.

Snoofy will be along any moment to claim its the mini van drivers fault.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 12:39 PM | Reply

It allows non citizens to get certified.

Legal Non citizens...

#23 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-18 12:41 PM | Reply

Any opportunity to put ALL immigrants in a negative light.

Right? This is WAY more important than the Epstein Files!

Never let a good opportunity for immigrant bashing like this go to waste maga maroons!

Makes one wonder how many American tourists cause accidents in other countries.

In Europe, as you know, they drive on the left side of the road. I can imagine Americans screw that up all the time. But them damn immigrants! One really screwed the pooch here so let's hang em high! Make an example out of him.

My brief AI search only turned up one death caused by driving in the wrong side of the road (by a Chinese tourist no less) but hundreds of accidents caused by tourists driving on the wrong side of the road.

Don't remember hearing about any of them.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-18 01:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The truck drivers reaction is emotionless.

The 300 sack of---------- cracked jokes about the firefighter who had his head blown off at the Butler, PA klan rally.

#25 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-18 01:12 PM | Reply

It allows non citizens to get certified.
Legal Non citizens...
#23 | Posted by boaz

Anyone Republicans want to say there's blood on Trump's hands, for letting this known illegal roam free?
Anyone at all.
#18 | Posted by snoofy

I'll be doing this for the next four years, or until I'm sent to the camps, whichever comes first.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 01:13 PM | Reply

Trump is turning the US into a s^*%hole like Russia and dumbf^%*s like mooch are still gobbling up the bait as fast as they can.

Idiots.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-18 03:45 PM | Reply

"Illegal immigrant accused of killing 3 in Florida highway crash crossed border into California in 2018"

Who the ---- was president in 2018, you ------- MAGAT -------?

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-18 04:25 PM | Reply

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

It wasn't Newsom. Heck, Newsom wasn't even the Governor of California in 2018. Not that idiot Noem would know that tid bit of nuance. But hey, she's stuck in the cult too, just like all the other DR resident cultists who are incapable of following a basic timeline.

#29 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-18 04:40 PM | Reply

"Stupid immigrants! Argh! They're not allowed to be in traffic accidents like us real Americans!! Blargh!"

Video: www.cbsnews.com

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-18 05:03 PM | Reply

Anyone Republicans want to say there's blood on Trump's hands, for letting this known illegal roam free?

Looks like it was Biden in 2020 that gave him the work authorization, which allowed him to get a CDL which allowed him to "roam free". and kill people.

But hey you voted for that.

I'll be doing this for the next four years, or until I'm sent to the camps, whichever comes first.

You've been telling lies as long as I've been on this site, four more years I expect no less.

#31 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 05:32 PM | Reply

Runt's kid-diddling idol killed 1.2 million Americans.

#32 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-18 05:34 PM | Reply


Don't remember hearing about any of them.

#24 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

My guess is the tourist felt bad about it, you know remorse, unlike Snoofy, and the driver of this truck.

Snoofy is actually proud of his vote to kill, maim, rape and traffik youth, and sexual abusers.

Just ask him.

#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 05:34 PM | Reply

"Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom's California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver's License"

Sounds about right. Anyone surprised?

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-18 05:36 PM | Reply

DHS now confirms the federal work permit was denied by the Trump Admin in Dec of 2020, but GRANTED by President Biden.

Thanks Biden!

#35 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 05:37 PM | Reply

1Nut is just like his Cultmeister; he blames Biden for EVERYTHING.

Did you know that Biden actually shot Abraham Lincoln?

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 05:40 PM | Reply

Dec of 2020

Those were the heady days when Dotard was choking out 3500 Americans every day.

#37 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-18 05:40 PM | Reply

This thread silenced a lot of people.

Why? 1 reason.

He had a CA drivers license....if it turned out he had a Florida license or any red state.....the outrage would generate 2 or 300 posts by now.

But it would have been phony.

These people are just as dead and it was team effort. The employer, the state of California, etc.

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 06:22 PM | Reply

Who the ---- was president in 2018, you ------- MAGAT -------?

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

What party of politicians were doing everything they could to block him getting rid of and stopping illegals like this from coming you bitch ass -----?

#39 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-18 06:35 PM | Reply

What party of politicians were doing everything they could to block him getting rid of and stopping illegals like this from coming
#39 | Posted by boaz

Nobody was blocking Trump. He had both houses of Congress in his first two years just like he does now.

And still, Biden deported more people than Trump in his first term: "during his first term, President Biden's administration deported more than 271,000 undocumented immigrants, surpassing the deportation numbers from Donald Trump's first term."

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 07:21 PM | Reply

#40

Cults HATE facts!

They become disoriented and afraid.

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 07:23 PM | Reply

"Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom's California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver's License"
Sounds about right. Anyone surprised?
#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds

100% correct.

Guns don't kill people.
Drivers Licenses kill people!
--Republicans

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 07:25 PM | Reply

www.nytimes.com

"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. focused enforcement on the record numbers of people who had recently crossed the southern border and used expanded emergency powers under Covid to conduct four million deportations during his tenure. Mr. Trump conducted 1.9 million during his first term."

and

"Mr. Biden was able to deport more people in part because there were more new arrivals to deport. The number of people trying to cross the border skyrocketed after he took office."

So it's true...Biden deported more....and deportations weren't cruel when Biden was ordering them.

"Cruelty is the point!!!" been reading that a lot lately....

I'll keep this in mind when we argue immigration policy in the future.

#43 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 07:37 PM | Reply

The Cult hallucinates wildly on Trump's lies about immigrant crime, Vlad and Netenyahu's bloodthirstiness, his Best Friend and Pedo Wingman Epstein, Biden, crime stats, tariffs... and most of everything he says.

Jim Jones would be proud.

#44 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 07:37 PM | Reply

Jim Jones......you know...since so many people are cultists.....you'd think we would have actual Jim Jones type incidents.

Lethal koolaid being drank worshiping someone.........hell of a TV special.

#45 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 07:40 PM | Reply

So it's true...Biden deported more....and deportations weren't cruel when Biden was ordering them.

How many cancer patients did Biden deport, -------? How many citizen children with non-citizen parents?

Remember being happy when your children were born?

Why did you kill that man?

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 07:41 PM | Reply

- actual Jim Jones type incidents.

You mean like endangering millions of people in Africa by stopping AIDS support?

Of making love in public to a mass murderer like Putin?

Or making people believe that immigrants commit more crimes per capita than do American citizens AND eat their cats??

#47 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-18 07:56 PM | Reply

47

No...that's different.

The closest I can think is people who insisted COVID was a hoax and literally killed themselves by exposing themselves to it.

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 07:58 PM | Reply

The closest I can think is people who insisted COVID was a hoax and literally killed themselves by exposing themselves to it.
#48 | Posted by eberly

That's about 500 Jonestowns, do you realize that?

The excess COVID death toll is about a half million Americans, under Trump's leadership.

Just one example:
Most cops who died in 2020, 2021, and 2022 died of COVID.

#49 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 08:05 PM | Reply

"Cruelty is the point!!!" been reading that a lot lately....
- eberly

This is snoofy's rallying cry for more illegal immigrants that rape, kill, maim and traffik in young children, and citizens.

I voted for that! Cruelty is the point
- snoofy

I like the enthusiasm
- cliwnsgack

#50 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-18 08:26 PM | Reply

2021 Was Deadliest Year for Law Enforcement Officers in History
nleomf.org

301 from COVID.
157 from all other causes.
Because the GOP is a Death Cult.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 08:39 PM | Reply

This is what IAMRUNT is proud to have voted for.

docs.google.com

#52 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-18 08:39 PM | Reply

My guess is the tourist felt bad about it, you know remorse, unlike Snoofy, and the driver of this truck.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-18 10:16 PM | Reply

My guess is the tourist felt bad about it, you know remorse, unlike Snoofy, and the driver of this truck.

My guess is that you are a foreign agitator and that this happens all over the world and there are deadly big rig wrecks all over the country by Americans but this is the only one that's important right now. Because an immigrant is involved.

In 2021, there were 5,904 fatal crashes involving large trucks in the United States, with approximately 5,788 deaths.

Just to put this story in perspective.

#54 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-18 10:17 PM | Reply

"This is snoofy's rallying cry for more illegal immigrants that rape, kill, maim and traffik in young children, and citizens."

Absolutely, here's my rallying cry for those who missed it:
Release The Epstein Files

#55 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 10:21 PM | Reply

#50

Gutless coward can ---- off.

#56 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-19 12:08 AM | Reply

Yes, in California, you need to provide your Social Security number (SSN) when applying for an original Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
More specifically:
You cannot start an original CDL application (Class A, B, or C) without DMV visually verifying your SSN.
While you don't need to physically show your SSN card for a noncommercial driver's license application, visual verification is required for original CDL applications.
The California DMV uses your SSN for verification purposes, primarily for establishing your identity and ensuring the integrity of their driver license database. They electronically verify your SSN, name, and birthdate with the Social Security Administration.

SSN issued under Biden. Thanks Biden admin

#57 | Posted by homerj at 2025-08-19 06:01 AM | Reply

I'm confused how this is different than any other vehicle accident, how his immigration status was a factor. They don't just hand out CDLs, I assuming he had to take written and driving tests.

#58 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-08-19 07:56 AM | Reply

Who the ---- was president in 2018, you ------- MAGAT -------?

#28 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD AT 2025-08-18 04:25 PM | REPLY: Which party under Pelosi during that timeframe was blocking funding to finish the wall - -------!

#59 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-08-19 11:51 AM | Reply

#59

Why would we need funding?

Your cult leader said Mexico would pay for the Wall!

#60 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-19 12:02 PM | Reply

Which party under Pelosi during that timeframe was blocking funding to finish the wall - -------!

#59 | POSTED BY MSGT

lol when biden is in office, it's all Biden's fault.

When Trump is in office, it's all Pelosi's fault.

F*+% off, idiot.

#61 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-19 01:10 PM | Reply

The dumbass shouldnt have been behind the wheel anyway..

He actually collapsed a bridge a few years ago. Why was he behind the wheel?

www.indiatimes.com

#62 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-19 03:36 PM | Reply

What's the theory here?

American citizens don't cause car accidents by doing stupid things?

Without immigrants car accidents would never happen?

Should a tourist on vacation be able to obtain a drivers license to drive in America legally.

Should Asian women be allowed to drive regardless of being an American citizen?

I need a xenophobe to help me be scared about this.

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-19 03:50 PM | Reply

Not to absolve CA DMV, but this guy almost certainly got his license because a CDL farm gave him all the appropriate paperwork. He took the much-too-easy multiple choice tests that are the same in every state, or had someone who can read English take them in his stead. He was road 'tested' by an instructor from his school (farm) who was certified by the DMV. He could have gotten his license in another state and transferred it to CA with no questions asked. There was a NJ HP caught a few weeks ago taking money to pass people. Same in Oregon a few months ago. It's a national problem.

It is way too easy to get and keep a class A license in this country and about half of the class C drivers can't park a bicycle straight.

#64 | Posted by BluSky at 2025-08-19 05:57 PM | Reply

Give this guy a break.

The only thing he's guilty of is making the U-Turns us Americans don't want to make.

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-19 06:03 PM | Reply

MAGAT ----- are retarded pedo loving traitors

#66 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-19 09:34 PM | Reply

#62

You suck pedo ----, you ------- coward.

#67 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-19 09:35 PM | Reply

Harjinder Singh, the Indian immigrant trucker, accused of killing 3 people in Florida after making a reckless U-turn on highway, badly flunked English fluency and road sign tests after the fatal crash, the US department of transportation said

#68 | Posted by homerj at 2025-08-20 09:03 AM | Reply

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