The heartbroken father of a 5-year-old lady who suffered life-altering accidents in a multi-vehicle pileup attributable to an illegal-immigrant truck driver says Gov. Gavin Newsom has stonewalled the household’s determined requires assist.
Dalilah Coleman, now 7, was left nonverbal and is relearning the right way to stroll after her household car was srtuck in a 2024 wreck by an 18-wheeler pushed by Partap Singh, an unlawful immigrant from India.
Singh, who had been given a industrial driver’s license by the state regardless of his immigration standing, was rushing via a building zone and didn’t cease his truck for site visitors, resulting in the horrifying crash, in line with the Division of Homeland Safety.
“When Dalilah’s accident first occurred, I reached out to the governor’s workplace, through cellphone in addition to e mail. I acquired nothing again in any respect,” Marcus Coleman mentioned on Fox Information’ “The Will Cain Present.”
Singh entered the nation illegally via the southern border in October 2022 however was launched by the Biden administration. He was rearrested by ICE in August 2025 to face deportation proceedings.
Dalilah spent three weeks in a coma and required six months of hospital therapy, which included a craniectomy, earlier than her household may deliver her residence, leaving her with out half her cranium for 4 months, DHS mentioned, citing Coleman.
The accident left Dalilah unable to eat meals orally, and she or he suffered a damaged femur, cranium fractures and has since been identified with diplegic cerebral palsy and international developmental delay, which would require lifelong remedy.
However regardless of her debilitating accidents and unimaginably painful restoration, pleas by her household to get authorities help to assist cowl her remedies have fallen on deaf ears.
“It’s simply type of left as much as us to sit down there and maintain what we have to maintain,” Coleman mentioned, telling Cain the household was even denied Social Safety advantages.
“I’m right here … attempting to make ends meet to fulfill her wants. And even then, we’re nonetheless falling brief and there’s no person there to assist us with it,” he added.
Coleman, himself a truck driver, vented his frustration with California’s lax laws round giving foreign-born truck drivers industrial driver’s licenses (CDLs), calling the observe “gross negligence.”
He accused California’s management, together with Newsom, of placing politics forward of security.
“I feel they’re attempting to do what’s going to favor them in the long term, irrespective of how many individuals it hurts,” he mentioned.
Coleman’s anger was echoed by Division of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who wrote on X that “California’s weak management is failing Individuals like Dalilah each day.”
He mentioned the one public acknowledgement Newsom has fabricated from the household’s struggling was a social media submit final September by which he accused President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of politicizing the crash.
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“It’s deeply dissatisfied to see Secretary Noem politicized such a horrific tragedy,” Newsom wrote on X in response to Noem calling out California’s DMV for issuing a CDL to an unlawful immigrant.
” The FEDERAL authorities issued the motive force a federal work allow (and RENEWED IT AFTER THE ACCIDENT), making him eligible for a driver’s license — not solely in California, BUT IN ANY STATE,” Newsom added.
“Madam Secretary, please cease peddling false and deceptive data.”
Final November, California revoked 17,000 CDLs issued to immigrants after a stunning audit revealed that the expiration dates went previous the dates when the drivers had been allowed to legally be within the US.
Newsom’s workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark by The Publish.
