Heartbroken dad slams California Dems after accident involving undocumented driver leaves daughter disabled
A California dad, whose 7-year-old daughter was permanently disabled in a crash involving an illegal alien trucker, ripped into liberal lawmakers Tuesday.“I reject your guys’ sympathy,” Marcus Coleman told lawmakers at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing on sanctuary policies.Coleman’s daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur and traumatic brain injury after an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slammed into the vehicle she was riding in Southern California in 2024.Authorities identified the truck driver as Partap Singh, an illegal alien from India who had obtained a California commercial driver’s license.“Sanctuary politicians must stop putting politics above public safety,” ICE told The California Post.“This type of insanity leads to more crimes and more innocent victims.”Singh was traveling at 60 mph, driving at an unsafe speed and failed to stop for traffic in a construction zone, authorities said.The crash also wrecked Coleman’s ability to provide for his family.He stopped working as a truck driver and said he is now pinching pennies while raising nine children.“I’m no longer truck driving.
I no longer make the money that we used to make.I’m now pinching pennies,” Coleman said.
“I have nine kids, by the way, that I take care of, and I had to sit there and stretch that.”Coleman said Democratic lawmakers never reached out after his daughter’s catastrophic injuries.“Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’ You guys do it right here where you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox,” he said.“This is when you guys care.
Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care.”California became a sanctuary state in October 2017 when then-Gov.Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act.The state is also classified as a sanctuary jurisdiction by the US Departm...