Last August 12, on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce, Harjinder Singh attempted an illegal U-turn through an “Official Use Only” median cut. His tractor-trailer jackknifed and blocked every northbound lane. A minivan carrying three Americans had nowhere to go. They died on impact. Singh, a 28-year-old Indian national who crossed the southern border illegally in 2018, held a California commercial driver’s license. He had already flunked the written CDL exam 10 times in just two months in Washington state before that state handed him a license anyway. California then issued him a separate non-domiciled CDL in July 2024. Post-crash testing revealed he could correctly answer only 2 of 12 English-language questions and identify just 1 of 4 traffic signs. He now sits in a St. Lucie County jail, without bond, facing three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of manslaughter. An ICE detainer waits. The case moves forward.

This was not random. FMCSA’s final rulemaking identified 17 fatal crashes in 2025 caused by non-domiciled CDL holders who would have been ineligible under the new standards. Those crashes killed 30 people. The geography stretched from Wyoming tunnels to California highways to interstate corridors across the country. The common thread never changed: unvetted foreign nationals behind the wheel of 80,000-pound machines.

I have spent enough time in finance to know when a system is being gamed, and the same analytical lens applies here. Sanctuary-state DMVs converted the non-domiciled CDL into an........

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