A week after the most recent killing of an American by an illegal immigrant truck driver, the Trump administration announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be deployed to truck weigh stations nationwide in a coordinated effort to get the more than 200,000 noncitizen truck drivers, many of whom can’t speak English, off the nation’s highways. It is a welcome move, long overdue.The cost of the Democratic Party’s reckless open border policy was again made clear on July 1, when Pennsylvania State Police Trooper First Class Michael Pahira was killed on Interstate 81 while conducting a commercial vehicle inspection. Authorities say Michael Bon, a Haitian national, drove his tractor-trailer onto the shoulder and struck Pahira during the inspection, killing him. Homeland Security officials confirmed that Bon was released into the country on parole by President Joe Biden in July 2024 and was issued a commercial driver’s license by Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA).
Bon’s case was not an outlier. In February, Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan with a Pennsylvania CDL, was accused of driving into oncoming traffic in Indiana and killing four people in a van. In August 2025, Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India with a California CDL, was accused of making an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike, causing a crash that killed three people. In October 2025, Jashanpreet Singh, an illegal immigrant from India who held a commercial license, was charged after a fiery crash on California’s I-10 killed three more.
