A California dad, whose 7-year-old daughter was completely disabled in a crash involving an unlawful alien trucker, ripped into liberal lawmakers Tuesday.
“I reject your guys’ sympathy,” Marcus Coleman advised lawmakers at a Home Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Safety, and Enforcement listening to on sanctuary insurance policies.
Coleman’s daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured cranium, damaged femur and traumatic mind damage after an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slammed into the automobile she was driving in Southern California in 2024.
Authorities recognized the truck driver as Partap Singh, an unlawful alien from India who had obtained a California industrial driver’s license.
“Sanctuary politicians should cease placing politics above public security,” ICE advised The California Put up. “This sort of madness results in extra crimes and extra harmless victims.”
Singh was touring at 60 mph, driving at an unsafe velocity and did not cease for site visitors in a building zone, authorities stated.
The crash additionally wrecked Coleman’s means to offer for his household.
He stopped working as a truck driver and stated he’s now pinching pennies whereas elevating 9 kids.
“I’m not truck driving. I not make the cash that we used to make. I’m now pinching pennies,” Coleman stated. “I’ve 9 youngsters, by the best way, that I deal with, and I needed to sit there and stretch that.”
Coleman stated Democratic lawmakers by no means reached out after his daughter’s catastrophic accidents.
“Not certainly one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me within the hallways and stated, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’ You guys do it proper right here the place you guys are grandstanding on high of your soapbox,” he stated. “That is once you guys care. Proper right here inside this room is the one time you guys care.”
California grew to become a sanctuary state in October 2017 when then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Invoice 54, the California Values Act.
The state can be categorised as a sanctuary jurisdiction by the US Division of Justice.
The legislation bars state and native police from investigating, interrogating or detaining folks solely for federal immigration enforcement functions.
Native jails usually can not maintain somebody past a scheduled launch date just because ICE has issued a detainer request.
The legislation does enable cooperation with federal immigration authorities involving sure severe or violent felony convictions.
Coleman blasted the sanctuary method.
“I believe that constructing must get checked for mould or one thing, since you guys are actually out of your guys’ thoughts pondering that sanctuary cities are the best way to go,” he advised Democratic lawmakers.
“That is the tip results of Sanctuary Metropolis proper right here,” Coleman stated, pointing to his daughter.
He additionally contrasted his spouse’s authorized immigration with unlawful entry.
“My spouse, an immigrant. She did what she’s speculated to do,” Coleman stated. “She did precisely what she’s speculated to do to get right here.”
Patricia Fox, one other mom testifying on the listening to, described the devastation her household has endured after a separate crash involving an unlawful alien.
Fox stated her daughter, Carissa “Luu” Aspnes, was completely disabled after a March 2025 hit-and-run in Colorado involving an unlawful from Venezuela.
The motive force and passenger fled with out checking whether or not she was alive.
“Regardless of her preliminary prognosis, Carissa survived. Reward God, however survival and restoration aren’t the identical,” Fox testified.
Fox stated her daughter can not sit up or stand on her personal.
She makes use of a Hoyer carry to get Aspnes off the bed, blends her meals and feeds her by means of a G-tube, administers medicine and bathes her.
At night time, she sleeps flippantly in case her daughter’s pulse oximeter sounds an alarm.
Fox additionally advised Democrats to place American lives forward of their struggle with Trump.
“It’s essential to love People greater than you hate Trump,” she added. “It’s actually your job.”
Coleman ended with a warning for the Democrats he holds accountable.
“She didn’t ask for any of this,” he stated of Dalilah. “The those who jumped the fence did although. They knew precisely what they have been doing. They nonetheless selected to maneuver ahead in that path. And every single day one thing’s occurring to someone, and it’s your guys’ fault. I maintain each certainly one of you chargeable for it, and I all the time will.”
