Tom Homan Savaged Kathy Hochul for Costing Drivers’ Lives Over a Database

An illegal alien trucker with a New York CDL issued under Kathy Hochul left an American man fighting for his life.

Border czar Tom Homan says thousands of illegal alien truckers just like him are getting pulled off American roads.

But Homan just admitted Hochul's state still won't let ICE anywhere near the one database that could stop the next one.

Hochul's Database Problem

The Department of Homeland Security says the crash never should have happened.

An illegal alien named Sukhdev Singh was behind the wheel of a semi-truck in March when he caused a crash that put an American man in the hospital fighting for his life.

New York issued him that CDL back on January 2, 2025.

DHS said the license never should have been granted, warning that it let him "wreak havoc on American streets."

Homan sat down with Fox News this week and explained that ICE has already pulled thousands of CDLs from illegal aliens with help from red state governments.

Then he named the holdout.

"ICE and CBP can't even get access to the DMV database," Homan said, describing what happens the moment his agents try New York.

Red states are opening their books to federal agents while Hochul keeps the doors locked.

Homan confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is now suing sanctuary cities one at a time to force compliance.

He said ICE arrested more than 10,000 illegal aliens in just five days last week, a record for the agency.

ICE is now setting up at truck weigh stations across the country, working the scales alongside state troopers to pull illegal alien drivers off the highway before they can cause the next crash.

Hochul Isn't the Only One, But She's the One Blocking the Fix

New York's database fight matters because it isn't an isolated case.

An illegal alien trucker killed Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr. during a roadside inspection this month.

An illegal alien from Uzbekistan killed 21-year-old Tobby Forsythe, and paramedics needed Google Translate just to speak with the man who hit him.

In California, an illegal alien named Manvir Singh caused a highway pileup near Lodi that killed two people, then tried to escape on foot before deputies caught him.

DHS called that crash "reckless and incredibly dangerous to public safety."

In Indiana, an illegal alien trucker who came into the country through Joe Biden's CBP One app cut across into oncoming traffic and hit a van head-on, killing four people.

A DHS official said his presence behind the wheel "led to the death of four innocent people in Indiana."

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has now made English proficiency a hard requirement for every trucker on American roads.

Duffy said California remains "the only state in the nation that refuses" to make sure its drivers can read American road signs.

Every one of these drivers ended up behind the wheel because some state government decided a driver's legal status wasn't its problem.

Kathy Hochul Chose Politics Over a Working Database

Here's what fires me up about this one: it's not incompetence, it's a decision.

Kathy Hochul had a name, a date, and a paper trail proving her own state handed a CDL to an illegal alien who nearly killed an American, and her answer was to keep the database locked anyway.

Homan isn't asking her for a favor.

He's asking her to unlock a list that already exists, sitting on a state server, doing nothing while dangerous drivers roll past.

That's not a technology problem or a paperwork delay, it's a governor choosing politics over a stranger's life on the side of the road.

Todd Blanche can sue sanctuary cities one at a time for the next decade, but the next Sukhdev Singh is already out on the highway right now.

Kathy Hochul had the power to open that database and didn't, and the next headline like this one will have her name on it.

Sources:

• Warner Todd Huston, "Tom Homan: Blue Sanctuary States Hiding Dangerous Illegal Migrant Truckers," Breitbart, July 7, 2026.
• "ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Critically Injured American Man in Semi-Truck Crash," Department of Homeland Security, March 13, 2026.
• "ICE Asks Governor Gavin Newsom and California Sanctuary Politicians to Not Release Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Killed Two People in Crash," Department of Homeland Security, May 21, 2026.
• Bonny Chu, "Illegal immigrant truck driver arrested after fatal crash near Lodi, CA," Fox News, May 21, 2026.
• "ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver who Killed 4, Injured Others in Indiana," Department of Homeland Security, February 5, 2026.
• "Illegal alien failed CDL test 10 times in 2 months before fatal Florida crash that killed 3," Fox 13 Tampa Bay, October 26, 2025.