A California seven-year-old who lost half her skull in a devastating truck crash met with federal officials to push for legislation preventing undocumented immigrants from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, nearly two years after the collision left her permanently disabled.
Meeting With Trump Administration Officials
Dalilah Coleman and her parents met with US Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin at DHS headquarters to discuss the proposed Dalilah’s Law. The legislation would prohibit states from granting commercial driver’s licenses to undocumented individuals. Mullin emphasized the urgency of the bill, stating that Dalilah represents countless victims of illegal immigrant truck drivers. President Trump previously urged Congress to pass the measure during his State of the Union address earlier this year.
Marcus Coleman, Dalilah’s father, outlined plans to approach governors nationwide asking them to adopt the Dalilah Standard. This pledge would prevent undocumented immigrants from commercial truck driving and implement stricter trucking regulations. He revealed that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office ignored his outreach attempts following the initial accident, providing no response to the family’s requests for assistance.
The Devastating 2024 Crash
On June 20, 2024, Partap Singh, an undocumented immigrant from India, was speeding through a construction zone when he failed to stop his truck for traffic. Singh had been granted a commercial driver’s license by California despite his immigration status. The collision left five-year-old Dalilah in a coma for three weeks. She required six months of hospital treatment, including a craniectomy that left her without half her skull for four months, according to DHS records.
The crash resulted in permanent disabilities for Dalilah. She now lives with diplegic cerebral palsy and global developmental delay, requiring lifelong therapy. Singh had entered the United States illegally through the southern border in October 2022 but was released by the Biden administration. ICE rearrested him in August 2025 to face deportation proceedings, and he remains in federal custody.
Push For Federal Legislation
The Trump administration has made Dalilah’s Law a priority in immigration enforcement policy. The proposed federal legislation would create uniform standards preventing states from issuing commercial driver’s licenses to undocumented individuals, closing what supporters call a dangerous loophole in public safety regulations. The Coleman family continues advocating for the law’s passage, using their daughter’s story to highlight the real-world consequences of current licensing policies that they believe prioritize political considerations over public safety and American families’ wellbeing.
Prayers for continued progress for this beautiful little girl. For the illegal towel head, immediate execution.
The quickest way to bring this to an end is to make the trucking company principal liable for damages resulting from his company having hired a non-qualified driver. If I owned a trucking company, all its drivers should have to pass a English literacy test, whether the state requires it or not. If a driver/applicant can’t pass the test, he can’t drive my trucks.
I am sure lawyers representing parties harmed in any way by non-qualified (non-English speaking) driver are already going after the trucking company ownership.
I would not be surprised to see an “English-speaking” requirement added to liability coverage written in the future.
Joe Biden has so much blood on his hands, that I dot care how old or decrepit he is. He should be in prison.
Biden is happily killing our legal citizenry by design. This is exactly what democrats want, no matter their victims’ ages.
Unscrupulous lawyers in Florida are trying to get truck driver, a Somalian Muslim, Mr. Ali, declared mentally ill and therefore incapable of going to trial after he drove off the road to run over two young surveyors and went right back onto the road for another 130 miles before he was captured. I am so upset that justice is not being done for my family and friends. I wish FL and other states would make it illegal to do this. The lawyers make more money (from taxpayers) by doing this. Isn’t America supposed to have speedy and public trials? As a relative, but not the next of kin, I am not given any info about what is going on. This is not American. I’ve made phone calls, sent letters–get no answers. No one seems to care — until there family is involved. The driver said he was trying to get to the airport to self-deport. I wish they would have helped him do that!
I agree with Dale and Freydis. Ali’s statement that he was trying to get to the airport to self-deport is a bald-faced lie. Why didn’t he take a taxi or ride share, instead of hauling an 18 wheeler?
I am not a lawyer but, it seems to me that long-haul truck have to cross state borders/lines and their licenses should be regulated by interstate laws (federal laws). It also seems that the U.S. Department of Transportation should have the authority to require all interstate drivers pass an English proficiency test. My family has several electricians working in the trades. I am constantly amazed with the numbers of checks that are required to run a hot wire from a pole to a building. This is all due to the safety regulations. It would seem that a 80,000 pound truck going down the road at 70 miles per hour hours should have, at the very least, requirements that the driver be proficient in English and pass a commercial drivers test. I am not sure but, it also seems to me that an illegal driver at the wheel kind of voids the insurance company liability.