adminWhen a California semi plowed into a family on June 20, 2024, it didn’t just wreck metal and glass — it shattered a little girl’s life and exposed a catastrophic policy failure. Five-year-old Dalilah Coleman suffered massive brain trauma that left her unable to walk, talk, or eat without a feeding tube, and her father Marcus Coleman is rightly demanding answers from the officials who failed to protect his child. Americans should feel anger and sorrow when our laws and systems put children at risk.
The medical toll on Dalilah has been devastating: months in the hospital, a craniectomy, weeks in a coma, and now a diagnosis that will require lifelong care and therapy for cerebral palsy and global developmental delay. This is not political theater; this is a family’s life torn apart while bureaucrats shrug. Hardworking taxpayers will be left picking up the tab unless policymakers act to prevent the next preventable tragedy.
Authorities say the truck driver, identified as Partap Singh, was in the country without lawful permanent status and had obtained a California-issued commercial driver’s license, a fact that has ignited outrage among families and law-and-order advocates. ICE moved to arrest Singh in August 2025, a belated action that only underscores how porous our immigration and licensing systems have become under soft-on-crime leadership. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his DMV owe the Coleman family not platitudes but accountability and real policy changes.
The federal government has finally begun to close this loophole: the Department of Transportation and FMCSA issued emergency reforms this past September to tighten who can receive non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, require immigration-status verification, and limit eligibility to specific employment-based visa holders. This rule is the kind of common-sense enforcement Americans expected when they demand safe roads and secure borders, and it ought to be enforced rigorously against any state that refuses to comply. Washington’s action proves that when Republicans stand for border security and public safety, results follow.
It is also telling that the Department of Homeland Security publicly noted this driver had crossed the southern border in October 2022 and was released into the country — a direct consequence of Biden administration policies that prioritize open borders over citizen safety. Families like the Colemans are paying the human price for political softness on immigration, and officials who defended those lax policies should not be allowed to hide behind excuses. America must put the safety of its children before ideological posturing.
Enough talk. Enforce the rules, strip licenses issued in violation of federal standards, and withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that persist in endangering Americans on the roads. Praise belongs to the ICE agents and federal regulators who did the hard work of holding a dangerous driver accountable, but praise must turn to pressure until every state obeys the law and protects its citizens. The Coleman family deserves justice, and the country deserves leaders who put public safety ahead of sanctuary politics.
