The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer for an illegal alien who killed two people while driving a semi-truck in California.

According to local reporting , the Moab Police Department (MPD) in Utah stopped Chamkaur Singh, an illegal alien from India, on September 1, after he had been driving 20 miles over the speed limit in a semi-truck. During the stop, the MPD officer identified Singh as the subject of a nationwide fugitive warrant for homicide – vehicular manslaughter after a crash in April that killed two people in California.

The crash took place on March 29 in Ontario. While California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers were responding to a two-vehicle crash, a semi-truck traveling in the slow lane rear-ended one car, killing one passenger and critically injuring another, before hitting another vehicle and killing a second person. Seven vehicles were involved in total and two other people were injured.

Singh was arrested and booked into the Grand County Jail. ICE lodged a detainer the day after he was arrested.

Singh was issued a commercial driver’s license (CDL) by the state of California on May 10, 2025, despite being an illegal alien. His CDL remains active despite three convictions on his CDL driving record, including improper lane or location, following too closely, and speeding.

“This illegal alien from India is accused of causing a semi-truck crash that killed two people in California,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “Due to the Biden Administration’s open borders and Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary policies, this criminal was released into our country and granted a commercial driver’s license. Despite having three convictions on his driving record, his CDL is still active. DHS is calling on Gavin Newsom and other sanctuary politicians to eliminate these deadly sanctuary policies that give handouts to illegal aliens at the cost of American lives. Illegal aliens have no right to be in our country or on our roadways.”

Singh claims to have left India in December 2020 and traveled through the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, before illegally entering the United States through Arizona in August 2021. Although he was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol, he was ultimately released  into the country by the Biden Administration.