Four more innocent Americans, reportedly all Amish, are now dead at the hands of an illegal alien truck driver following a horrific crash in Indiana earlier this month. The news is just the latest tragedy stemming from Democrat open borders and sanctuary city policies.
On February 3, law enforcement apprehended a 30-year-old Kyrgyzstani national named Bekzhan Beishekeev after he caused “a head-on crash in Indiana that killed four people” in a van in Bryant, Indiana. While most Amish themselves do not drive cars, five Amish construction workers appear to have hired a driver to bring them home from a work site. All four who died are reportedly Amish, according to WISH-TV reporting, while the non-Amish driver needed emergency surgery for his injuries.
A horrifying image shared by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shows a mangled mess of metal following the accident. Another tear-jerking photo shows around 60 Amish in traditional clothing gathering around the site of the deadly incident. “I have been on the job almost 30 years and this would definitely rank among one of the most horrific crashes I’ve seen,” a county sheriff captain said. “Just going to the scene was chaos.”
In disturbing contrast, a mugshot shows an unfazed Beishekeev, without any apparent remorse for the damage he caused.
Melugin reported, based on police statements, that the illegal alien “didn’t stop for another slowed semi-truck, swerving instead into oncoming traffic and crashing head-on into a van.”
Beishekeev was waved into the country by Joe Biden using the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol One (CBP One) app. That program, which President Donald Trump has repurposed as a self-deportation app, allowed migrants to click one button and be allowed to roam the country without any restraints.
The deadly crash in Indiana follows similar vehicular mayhem caused by illegal aliens in Florida and California, all of whom were granted truck licenses by 2028 Democrat presidential hopeful Governor Gavin Newsom.
Soon after the Indiana crash, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy laid out clear and devastating evidence showing that Democrat leaders were responsible for the wreckage. “The Biden admin INVITED illegals like Bekzhan Beishekeev to flood our borders,” Duffy wrote on X. “Biden’s ‘catch and release’ policy ALLOWED him into our country.”
“Pennsylvania issued him a NON-DOMICILED license,” Duffy said.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) followed up with its own indictment of reckless Democrat policies. “Not only was Bekzhan Beishekeev released into our country by the Biden administration using the CBP One app, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
“These sanctuary governor[s] must stop giving illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses before another American gets killed,” she warned.
Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro has denied any responsibility for his state granting CDLs to illegal aliens. “This person had legal status in [DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem’s database when the license was issued, and actually still shows as eligible to receive a license *as of today*,” Shapiro’s office stated on X.
However, that argument does not appear to hold up. The “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements” (SAVE) database, which Shapiro’s office was referring to, clearly states that it does not “determine applicant eligibility for a specific benefit or license. That determination is made by the benefit issuing or licensing agency.”
In other words, SAVE does not determine if someone is qualified to hold an occupational license – that responsibility falls to individual states, who must ensure that an applicant is of legal status and compliant with all federal laws and regulations.
While Pennsylvania issued Beishekeev a license in July 2025, the Department of Transportation (DOT) subsequently ordered the Keystone State to review its use of “non-domiciled” commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to ensure safety compliance.
In November of last year, Transportation Secretary Duffy “announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found Pennsylvania violated existing federal safety regulations by issuing non-domiciled CDLs illegally – including to ineligible foreigners without verifying their legal status.” DOT announced it would “withhold nearly $75 million in federal funding” unless the state revoked the licenses and corrected its “dangerous failures.”
Shapiro’s administration failed to do so, and as a result four Americans are now dead.
The tragedy only further underscores the need for the Trump administration’s mass deportation operations, even for those who have not committed violent crimes. Untold tens of thousands of illegal aliens let into the country under the Biden administration have now secured CDLs from blue states in direct violation of federal law and often without even being able to read English and understand the basic laws of the road.
The Trump administration has taken swift action to attempt to mitigate this threat, with Noem launching an operation last October that took 145 illegal truck drivers off the highways in Indiana. But more remain.
Americans deserve to feel safe on their roads, driving to and from work or to visit friends and family. They should not be forced to live in constant fear and anxiety every time they are on the highway, worrying if the truck behind them is driven by a qualified English-speaking American or a foreigner who hopped the border under Biden.
The Trump administration is making great strides on that front. But as long as Democrat governors continue to ignore basic safety regulations and hand out CDLs to illegal aliens, American lives will continue to be at risk.
AMAC Newsline contributor Matt Lamb is an associate editor for The College Fix. He previously worked for Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action, and Turning Point USA. He previously interned for Open the Books. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, LifeSiteNews, Human Life Review, Headline USA, and other outlets. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him @mattlamb22 on X.
