Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, May 2, 2025

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According to independent reporter Sarah Fields, he was an immigrant from Ethiopia with a CDL from California. A judge reduced his bail because a toxicology report supposedly showed he was not on drugs, which only raises further questions about his driving abilities. He is currently out of jail.

 

In June 2024, Jose Medina-Hernandez was driving a box truck when he rear-ended a car in Shelby Township, Michigan, killing an elderly woman and her daughter. He was an asylum seeker with DHS’s Systemic Alien Verification Entitlement (SAVE) program. He didn’t have a valid CDL, just a driver’s license — despite being in four previous accidents. He was convicted of two misdemeanors and sentenced to less than a year in jail.

That same month, Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza drove his semi-truck off the side of the road, dumping his load of pipes and iron onto five other cars, killing Scott Miller. Mr. Cruz-Mendoza was in the country illegally and was under a deportation order. He had reportedly been returned to Mexico several times before. ICE recently deported him after he served his brief sentence. The company that employed him had a history of using unlicensed drivers. Mr. Miller’s widow personally urged ICE to deport her husband’s killer.

Licenses for commercial truck drivers in Canada are honored in the United States, so immigrants who begin driving there can pose a threat here. The most notorious recent case was that of Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who immigrated from India to Canada in 2014. In 2018, he killed 16 people and injured 13 others when he drove his truck into a junior hockey team’s bus. In the 11 days leading to the crash, he committed 70 separate violations of federal and provincial trucking regulations. His employer was Adesh Deol Trucking Ltd, owned by Sukhmander Singh.

https://www.amren.com/features/2025/05/trump-sides-with-american-truckers/