Exclusive | Tour bus driver charged in fatal wreck entered US illegally and was still issued NYS license: feds

The Chinese national charged in a deadly tour bus wreck on a Tennessee highway had entered the US illegally — but was still issued a driver’s license by New York state, The Post has learned.Huang Yisong, 54, crossed the US-Mexico border in 2023 and was released under Biden administration policies, eventually ending up in Brooklyn and snagging a commercial driver’s license from the state, federal homeland security and transportation officials said. “Far too many innocent Americans have been killed by illegal aliens driving semi-trucks and bigrigs,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem said in a statement to The Post.“And yet, sanctuary states around the country have been issuing illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses.”Yisong was taken into custody on vehicular homicide charges following last week’s crash on Interstate 40 West that killed a 31-year-old truck driver and injured several others, officials said.The feds said Yisong admitted to US Border Patrol agents that he had entered the states illegally, but was released with work papers and a social security card — which allowed him to get a NYS commercial driver’s license earlier this year.The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, which has denied that the agency wrongfully approved Yisong for the license, said Wednesday that it was issued to him on April 11, 2025, after he presented legit federal documents.The issuing of commercial licenses to migrants in sanctuary states like New York has been an issue pushed to the forefront by the Trump White House, part of the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration.“The Trump Administration is ending the chaos,” Noem said.

“The brave men and women of ICE are working nonstop to get criminal illegal aliens out of our communities and off our roads.”Last week, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to pull $73 million in federal highway funding from the Empire State after an audit claimed that foreign born drivers we...