Gord Magill’s Op-Ed in the Daily Caller.
Earlier this year during President Donald Trump’s State of The Union address, he highlighted a little girl named Dalilah Coleman, for whom a new piece of legislation is named and is now before Congress.
Dalilah’s life was irrevocably changed when the car she and her mother were driving in was hit by a tractor trailer being driven by an illegal immigrant from India named Partap Singh. Dalilah spent weeks in a coma and without half of her skull for four months, and now suffers from diplegic cerebral palsy with normal cognitive development severely delayed.
Dalilah’s Law, amongst other items within it, seeks to enforce something which once seemed straightforward and common sense – that states should not be issuing Commercial Driver’s Licenses to illegal aliens.
Dalilah’s story, however, is but a piece of a much larger series of tragedies playing out throughout America.
Until August of 2025, when shocking dash cam footage went viral showing an illegal immigrant from India pulling a U-turn on the Florida turnpike and killing 3 people, the media had largely been ignoring this growing problem on our highways. That incident in Florida, however, changed the game, and combined with the story of Dalilah Coleman, two entire families being killed in two separate incidents in Texas also involving illiterate and untrained migrants, the mainstream is now paying attention. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Father Of Girl Maimed By Illegal Trucker Wants To Close Shady Industry Loophole For Good)
CBS has conducted its own investigations into what is going on here, including a multi part series at 60 Minutes on a dangerous carrier operated by Serbian gangsters in Chicago, and a look into the industry of load brokering, the intermediaries between shippers and trucking companies and what role they have to play in failing to screen bad actors out of the business.
There is also a case on this question before the Supreme Court right now called Montgomery vs. Caribe, which should be seeing a ruling in June.
Many of these media pieces fail to ask how the trucking industry arrived here. What caused the American Trucking industry to fall prey to such a lowering of safety standards and flooding of our roads with so many dangerous drivers?
At first glance it looks to be a confluence of corporate greed and problems with mass migration; however, the story is much deeper, and I have written a book explaining how we got here called “End Of The Road – Inside The War on Truckers.”
