FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Harjinder Singh, a industrial truck driver accused of inflicting a crash that killed three folks on the Florida Turnpike final month has entered a not responsible plea.
Courtroom data present Singh, a 28-year-old unlawful alien, waived his scheduled arraignment listening to Monday and entered a not responsible plea to a few counts of vehicular murder and immigration violations
Singh is being held with out bond within the St. Lucie County Jail, along with his subsequent courtroom listening to, a pre-trial docket name, scheduled for Oct. 3.
He pleaded not responsible even because the federal authorities used the case to justify new, stringent nationwide laws on industrial driver licenses, or CDLs, for unlawful aliens.
Singh was given a industrial driver’s license by Washington and California regardless of being unable to talk English or learn street indicators, and was allegedly liable for the deaths of three folks on Aug. 12.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy introduced new emergency federal guidelines, stating the Florida crash and subsequent federal audit revealed widespread failures by a number of states in issuing CDLs to unlawful aliens.
The audit by the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration discovered that licenses had been improperly issued in six states: California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Washington.
The federal crackdown targets California specifically, with Duffy threatening to withhold roughly $160 million in federal freeway funding if the state doesn’t adjust to the brand new, stricter CDL necessities inside 30 days.
The brand new coverage units extra restrictive standards for unlawful aliens to acquire CDLs and requires states to pause the issuance of non-domiciled licenses till they’ll confirm compliance.
