An Indian illegal migrant who killed three while performing an illegal U-turn with his big rig was spared deportation after saying he was ‘scared’ of being sent home.
Harjinder Singh crossed from California to Mexico illegally in September 2018 and was promptly arrested by Border Control, it was revealed after last Tuesday’s horror crash in Florida.
Singh was earmarked for a fast-track deportation back to India, but managed to swerve it by claiming he had a ‘fear’ of returning to his home nation, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin first revealed.
Immigration officials accepted his claims.
That saw Singh freed on a $5,000 immigration bond in January 2019. He traveled to California, where he was able to obtain a commercial driver’s license.
Singh remained under the radar until Tuesday August 12, when he attempted an illegal U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce.
Harjinder Singh, pictured, right, killed three people after performing an illegal U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce on August 12. It has now emerged that he was earmarked for fast-track deportation after being caught crossing into California in 2018 – only to avoid being flown home to India after expressing ‘fear’
All three occupants of this black minivan died after slamming into Singh’s trailer. The driver was a 30 year-old man, while the passengers were a 37 year-old woman and 54 year-old man. They have yet to be identified
Singh was handed a commercial driver’s license by the State of California, sparking fury by immigration critics who say the crash tragedy was an avoidable one
Sickening footage from the cab of the truck showed a black minivan traveling at speed slam into the trailer as Singh began to turn.
All three occupants of the van were killed. It’s driver – a 30 year-old man from Florida City – died after being flown to hospital by helicopter.
The passengers who also died were a 37 year-old woman from Pompano Beach and a 54 year-old man from Miami, NBC6 reported.
None of their identities have been released.
Singh faces three counts of vehicular homicide.
His actions have sparked a fresh debate about illegal immigration, with critics saying that Singh’s victims would be alive had he been deported as originally-intended.
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Appalling past of Indian illegal migrant trucker who killed three with illegal U-turn