Federal authorities have confirmed that the truck driver who struck and killed a 36-year-old Mississippi man on Interstate 20 is a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from India, one who had been wearing a government-issued GPS ankle monitor for more than eight years.
Sube Singh of Fresno, California, was driving a 2021 Freightliner 18-wheeler westbound on I-20 near the 29-mile marker in Hinds County, Mississippi, at approximately 1:46 p.m. on Thursday, August 20, when his rig struck Dedric Garrett, 36, of Terry, Mississippi. Garrett had stepped out of his 2016 Honda CR-V on the interstate. He died at the scene. Singh walked away without a scratch.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Singh's immigration status to both Border Hawk News, which first reported the confirmation on Sunday, and separately to The Daily Wire. The Daily Wire also reported that Singh was wearing his federal GPS tracker while behind the wheel of the 18-wheeler that killed Garrett.
Border Patrol first encountered Singh in November 2017. ICE released him on bond in May 2018 and placed him into an alternatives-to-detention program with GPS monitoring, a program in which he has remained ever since. That means federal immigration authorities have known where Singh was for more than eight years. They knew he was in the country illegally. They fitted him with an electronic monitor. And at no point in the intervening years did anyone remove him from American roads.
DHS did not hold back about the broader problem. In a statement, the department said:
"It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don't know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating vehicles on America's roads."
The department added that it "is aggressively working with its interagency partners to get illegal alien commercial drivers off the road." But the timeline of Singh's case raises a pointed question: if DHS has been monitoring this man with a GPS device since 2018, how did he end up operating a commercial 18-wheeler on a Mississippi interstate?
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is conducting an active investigation into the crash. No charges have been announced, and MHP has released nothing further. Whether Singh held a valid commercial driver's license, and in which state, remains unclear from available reporting. So does the question of who owned or contracted the Freightliner he was driving, and whether he was hauling a load at the time.
The case follows a grim pattern. In a separate incident, a Haitian illegal immigrant truck driver allegedly killed a Pennsylvania state trooper after ignoring a federal deportation order, another case where enforcement failures preceded a fatal crash.
Andrew Kolvet, executive producer at Turning Point USA, posted on X Tuesday that Sube Singh is at least the fifth Indian national with the surname Singh tied to a deadly crash on American roads. Kolvet's count, while not independently verified, aligns with a string of cases documented in recent reporting.
In August 2025, Harjinder Singh, an Indian national, killed three people on the Florida Turnpike while making an illegal U-turn with his truck. Roughly two months later, Jashanpreet Singh drove his rig into stopped traffic on Interstate 10 in Ontario, California, killing three more. A judge sentenced Jashanpreet Singh to four years and eight months, a penalty Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called "a slap on the wrist," Breitbart reported.
Then came Manvir Singh, an illegal alien and Indian national whom California prosecutors charged with vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run in May after a wreck that killed a 16-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man. DHS used that case to push Congress on Dalilah's Law, proposed legislation that would stop states from issuing commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
Federal officials have attributed at least 17 fatal crashes and 30 deaths in 2025 alone to non-domiciled drivers, a category that includes foreign nationals operating trucks without proper credentials. Each crash produced grieving families. Each one followed a failure somewhere in the system meant to keep unqualified drivers off the road.
The problem extends well beyond Indian nationals. An Uzbek truck driver admitted under the Biden-era diversity lottery stands accused of killing a college soccer goalkeeper on an Ohio highway, another life lost to a foreign driver who should never have been behind the wheel of a commercial rig.
Transportation Secretary Duffy has finalized a rule shutting unqualified foreign drivers out of the commercial licensing system. The rule's specific provisions and Federal Register citation have not been detailed in public reporting on the Singh case, but its intent is clear: close the gaps that let unlicensed or improperly licensed foreign nationals operate 80,000-pound vehicles on American highways.
Dalilah's Law, meanwhile, remains before Congress with no reported vote or passage. The bill would bar states from handing commercial licenses to illegal immigrants, a straightforward measure that, had it been law years ago, might have kept Sube Singh and others out of the cab of a Freightliner entirely.
The pattern is not limited to commercial trucking. Fox News reported on another fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana, where illegal immigrant truck driver Singh Sukhdeep, also from India, ran a red light with a Freightliner semi-truck, killing 64-year-old Terry Schultz. Sukhdeep had crossed the border illegally in 2018 as a minor and was released under the Flores consent decree rather than being detained. He received his commercial driver's license only in May 2025. That crash came less than two weeks after a separate incident in Indiana where an illegal alien truck driver from Kazakhstan allegedly killed four people.
In yet another case, ICE arrested a Russian illegal immigrant tied to a fatal Minnesota truck crash and moved to deport him, but only after someone was already dead.
The most damning detail in Sube Singh's case may be the simplest one. The federal government knew exactly where he was. They had a GPS device strapped to him. They had known since 2017 that he was in the country illegally. They released him on bond. They monitored him electronically. And for eight years, that monitoring did nothing to prevent him from climbing into the cab of a commercial truck and driving it down an American interstate.
Dedric Garrett, 36, is dead. The Mississippi Highway Patrol's investigation continues. No charges have been filed. ICE has not publicly stated whether it has moved to detain or deport Singh following the crash. The GPS monitor, presumably, is still transmitting his location.
Families like Garrett's, and like the father of a slain Marine who watched his son's killer face a third deportation, are left to wonder what the point of all this monitoring is if no one acts on the information. DHS says it is working aggressively to get illegal alien commercial drivers off the road. Dedric Garrett's family might ask why that work did not start eight years ago.
A GPS ankle monitor tracks a man's location. It does not stop him from killing someone. Until the government treats illegal alien truckers as a threat to be removed rather than a data point to be tracked, the body count will keep climbing.
