The Democrats have captured both houses of Congress and are gleefully announcing, “woke is back.” But theres one inconvenient detail: President Donald Trump still controls the executive branch.
Why does that matter?
Because Ryan OShea mattered.
On October 16, 21-year-old Ryan OShea, a University of New Haven hockey captain studying criminal justice, was driving home from a game when a pickup truck traveling the wrong way on Connecticuts Interstate 91 slammed head-on into his car. Ryan was killed instantly.
Police say the other driver was Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, who is a Mexican national who DHS says had already been removed from the United States twice. Somehow, he was back.
The story circulated widely on social media, but received limited mainstream coverage. One neednt wonder why. Ryan was not a member of any of our medias preferred victim classes, he wanted to go into law enforcement, and he was allegedly killed by someone who the feds say shouldnt have been here.
Three strikes.
But his death raises a larger question: How is it possible that so many foreign drivers are permitted â or even assisted â in getting licensed to drive on our roads? Is there more going on here?
Examples similar to Ryans are legion. In July, Uzbek national Bekhzod Asrarov, who had entered the U.S. legally, allegedly killed 21-year-old college soccer player Tobias “Toby” Forsythe when his tractor-trailer slammed into the young mans car. Asrarov, who held an Ohio CDL, reportedly couldnt communicate with police without Google Translate, failed an English-proficiency test and allegedly attempted to conceal evidence, including his electronic driving logs.
Then, on September 2, Indian national Manjit Singh, whom DHS identified as illegal, was involved in another fatal Ohio crash that killed 50-year-old Brenda Watson. Singh held a California CDL and has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.
We could go on. Ohio has at least moved to tighten the loopholes that allowed this. Too late for two Americans.
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But thats more than blue states are willing to do. So in September 2025, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced emergency restrictions on CDLs issued to foreign drivers after a nationwide audit uncovered widespread fraud.
In New York alone, Duffys audit found that over half of commercial trucking licenses went to illegal drivers â and those drivers hit the roads across the country. In one case, investigators found that a Chinese national accused of causing a fatal highway pileup in Tennessee was illegally issued a New York State drivers license.
In California, the audit found that 25% of CDLs were unlawfully issued â with a stated policy that California will not enforce
