The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that a truck driver charged in a deadly collision in Ohio is an illegal alien from India unleashed by the Biden regime.
The horrific tragedy unfolded at around 9 p.m. on Sept. 2 in Brown County.
A tractor-trailer heading northbound on U.S. Route 68 reportedly attempted to pass another vehicle, but after swerving into the southbound lane, the big rig slammed head-on into a southbound vehicle driven by Brenda Watson, 50.
Watson was pronounced deceased at the scene.
A witness told investigators the big rig driver had been traveling at “excessive speed” but also had “ample time and space to merge back into the northbound lane” before the collision, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by WLWT.
“Her car literally went up, came down. There was smoke. It was bad,” LeAnn Shepherd stated.
“It was like I seen it was going to happen, before it happened, and I already had my phone to call 911.”
The driver of the semi, identified as 39-year-old Manjit Singh, was arrested and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.
Singh illegally crossed the southern border into Arizona in 2023 and was released by U.S. Border Patrol.
He was granted work authorization by the Biden administration in August 2024 and was issued a commercial driver’s license by the sanctuary state of California.
“This illegal alien from India has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide after allegedly causing a semi-truck crash that killed 50-year-old Brenda Watson in Ohio,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
“He has no business being in our country or on our roads, but because of the reckless open borders of the Biden Administration and the sanctuary policies of Gavin Newsom’s California, he was able to obtain a CDL that allowed him behind the wheel of a semi-truck.”
The criminal complaint lists Manjit Singh's California address, which just so happens to be the home of Punjab Truck Driving School, a DOT drug testing facility, and several other transportation businesses. https://t.co/mA45IqqLSu pic.twitter.com/KF8eCT3DCq
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer against Singh, who is being held in Brown County Jail on $250,000 cash bond.
Brenda Watson “was a faithful member of Brier Ridge Church, where she attended every Sunday and found comfort and fellowship among her church family,” her obituary states.
An Ohio native, Watson is survived by her daughter, son, sister, and extended family.
