Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom over a truck collision that left a five-year-old girl seriously injured, accusing him of enabling undocumented immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses.
The June 2024 crash in San Bernardino County involved a six-vehicle pileup that left Bakersfield resident Dalilah Coleman with a fractured skull and broken leg. Federal officials said the semi-truck driver, Partap Singh, was undocumented and had received a commercial license from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Singh was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Fresno on August 29 pursuant to a warrant.
“Dalilah Coleman’s tragedy was entirely preventable,” Noem wrote on X. “This is sadly another example of Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issuing an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License. How many more innocent people must become victims before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with American lives?”…