Exclusive: Sanctuary state allows illegal immigrant to walk after fatal truck crash despite fed’s request
Story by Anthony Iafrate • 12h
Washington state refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer for an illegal immigrant truck driver who allegedly caused a fatal crash there, according to a Tuesday press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Indian national Kamalpreet Singh, 25, was piloting a semi-truck that struck a stopped Mazda in Washington state on Thursday morning, killing the car’s driver, Robert B. Pearson, 29, at the scene, the Auburn Examiner reported, citing the Washington State Patrol. “Instead of honoring the ICE arrest detainer, these politicians chose to release this public safety threat back onto America’s roads,” the press release stated, referring to Singh.
Washington was listed as a sanctuary state, along with 11 others, on a list published by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice in August. The state has a Democratic governor, Bob Ferguson, and Democrats control houses of the state legislature.
Ferguson’s predecessor, former Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, in 2019 signed a law cementing the blue state’s “sanctuary” status, restricting local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Ferguson was the state’s attorney general at the time.
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