Road Safety and Transportation

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that Rajinder Kumar, a 32-year-old Indian national accused of criminally negligent homicide after a Nov. 24 semi-truck crash that killed two people on U.S. Highway 20 in Deschutes County, Oregon, entered the U.S. illegally in Nov. 2022, was released, received work authorization in 2023, and later obtained a California commercial driver’s license. ICE has lodged a detainer as Kumar remains in the Deschutes County jail; DHS highlighted Oregon’s sanctuary status and said it will seek custody if he is released.