An illegal immigrant from India living in the United States was arrested last Monday after the semi-truck he was driving veered off a Northern California highway, struck a guardrail, and caused a multi-vehicle crash near Lodi that killed two people. He allegedly tried to run from the scene before police caught him.
Singh now faces charges of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit and run resulting in death or injury, and obstructing or resisting a police officer. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged an immigration detainer with local law enforcement, requesting that Singh not be released.
"This criminal illegal alien from India should never have been behind the wheel of a semi-truck and allowed to kill two innocent people in a multi-vehicle crash in California," said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis in the DHS press release. "He is now charged with vehicular manslaughter, hit and run resulting in death or injury, and resisting a police officer. This is yet another example of why illegal aliens should not be operating trucks on American highways.”
Bis called for Congress to pass Dalilah’s Law to prohibit states from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
It remains unclear whether Singh held a valid commercial driver's license.
DHS pointed to a series of deadly crashes in recent months involving illegal immigrants behind the wheel of commercial trucks.
In April, ICE arrested an illegal immigrant truck driver who had been issued a CDL by California and who killed a pair of newlyweds in Oregon last November. In February, ICE arrested an illegal immigrant driver with a CDL issued by Pennsylvania who swerved into oncoming traffic on Feb. 3, killing four people in a head-on collision.
Other examples include August 2025, when a man identified as Harjinder Singh attempted an illegal U-turn through an "Official Use Only" access point in St. Lucie County, Florida, blocking all lanes of a highway with his truck and instantly killing three people, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. ICE lodged a detainer on him for three counts of vehicular homicide.
Melugin noted Wednesday that Manvir Singh is now "the fourth Indian illegal alien truck driver with the last name 'Singh' that we've covered who has been arrested for killing innocent people in crashes around the country, going back to last year."
DHS is pushing Congress to pass what it calls Dalilah's Law—a proposed federal measure that would bar any state from issuing commercial driver's licenses to people living in the country illegally. The law is named after Dalilah Coleman, a young girl who sustained life-changing injuries after being hit by a vehicle driven by an illegal immigrant.