California 7-year-old left with half a cranium after crash involving undocumented truck driver shares touching second with Trump’s high brass

Practically two years after an unlawful immigrant virtually took her life, California seven-year-old Dalilah Coleman and her dad and mom met with US Secretary of Homeland Safety Markwayne Mullin on the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) headquarters as they received an replace on a push to cross a regulation named in her honor.

Mullin spoke to her father, Marcus, in regards to the significance of passing Dalilah’s Legislation, which might prohibit any state from granting a Business Driver’s License to an undocumented individual.

On June 20, 2024, Partap Singh — an undocumented man from India, who had been given a business driver’s license by the state regardless of his immigration standing — was rushing by way of a development zone and did not cease his truck for visitors, resulting in the horrifying crash, in line with DHS.

Singh entered the nation illegally by way of 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, who was 5 years previous on the time of the crash, spent three weeks in a coma and required six months of hospital remedy, which included a craniectomy, earlier than her household might carry her house, leaving her with out half her cranium for 4 months, DHS mentioned, citing Coleman.

Following the incident, she has “been identified with diplegic cerebral palsy, world developmental delay, and can want life-long remedy,” DHS additional wrote.

The Trump Administration has additionally advocated for the passing of the Dalilah Legislation. In the course of the State of the Union Speech earlier this yr, President Donald Trump additionally urged Congress to behave.

In the course of the assembly, Coleman’s father mentioned, “We’re going to go round to all of the governors and ask them to signal the Dalilah Customary, and pledge their state to the Dalilah Customary, which can cease unlawful immigrants from truck driving and can put harsher legal guidelines on trucking.”

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Again when Dalilah’s preliminary accident had occurred, Marcus reached out to Governor Gavin Newsom’s workplace, however was ignored and “obtained nothing again in any respect,” he revealed again in January on Fox Information.

“Dalilah is only one of numerous victims of unlawful alien truck drivers. President Trump is looking on Congress to cross Dalilah’s Legislation, to make it not possible for unlawful aliens to acquire business driver’s licenses,” Mullin commented following the assembly.

Singh was arrested on August 29, 2025 and has remained in federal custody.