JASON LEWIS: Illegal Immigration Kills More People

The national media silence over an illegal alien with a California commercial driver’s license (CDL) accused of killing three people while making an unlawful U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike is instructive on several fronts.

None of them good.

First, it continues the trend of open-border journalists—from the Wall Street Journal to CNN—to place global commerce and identity politics above the lives of Americans. Newsrooms have buried the story because they know how fundamentally disgraceful their editorial decisions really are.

Whether promoting ‘sanctuary cities’ while criticizing attempts at restoring law and order or downplaying the deaths on our highways due to illegal immigrant drivers—these folks, along with the politicians they back, are the real culprits.

Second, the very notion of granting any driver’s license, let alone one for a semi, to someone who cannot read road signs in English is so demonstrably lunatic on its face that no sane person could possibly support it. And yet, California is one of 19 states that issues licenses regardless of immigration status and the ability to understand America’s traffic laws.

In fact, the alleged perpetrator in the Florida crash answered just two of twelve questions correctly when tested for English language proficiency and could only identify one out of four highway signs shown to him, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

How Harjinder Singh was able to obtain a CDL in California where applications are supposedly administered in English is no more a mystery than welfare time limits—blue state outlaws ignore them.

In wacked-out Washington state, where Singh had another CDL, officials allow tests to be taken in English, Spanish, Russian, or Serbian-Croatian. All of which I’m sure you’ve seen on America’s road signs.

Worse, for a mere passenger car drivers license, it’s a free for all with almost every state administering exams in a multitude of foreign languages. Multiculturalism is killing people. And so are the people who enable it.