It seems that lately there is an endless parade of evidence showing illegal immigrants behaving badly—or, at the very least, with lethal incompetence. The latest example is the infamous Indian Sikh truck driver who made an unsignaled, last-minute U-turn, causing a family of three to crash into his trailer, killing them instantly.
An ex-girlfriend’s dad was a trucker for many years, and I remember him telling me that the state of the industry has really declined. Instead of unionized drivers with rigorous training and employment protections, there are loads of young, hastily-trained, immigrant men driving recklessly. As we saw with the Indian driver, many of these immigrants are here illegally, and come from cultures that do not hold human life sacred to the same extent as Western cultures.
Yours portly isn’t normally one for unions, which often seem to drive up labor costs and line the pockets of a handful of union leaders and their purchased politicians. However, not all unions are bad, and unions can and do serve a purpose in certain industries and certain contexts. Establishing some manner of bare minimum standards should be the goal for trucking (and many other professions). I’d rather pay more for shipping on my cheap plastic crap than risk lives by hiring dirt-cheap, indifferent drivers from cultures that don’t value the sanctity of human (or, at the very least, white) life.
It’s pretty apparent that the Indian driver in question felt zero remorse for his actions; if anything, he just seems inconvenienced by the three people he killed. Indians also seem indifferent, and care more about this murderer getting off scot-free than about the crime he committed.
“But Port,” you say, “couldn’t anyone make this mistake?” Sure. But here’s the key, and one that some people never understand: he shouldn’t have been here. It’s bad enough when an American citizen commits a crime or makes a lethal mistake; it’s so much worse when the person had no right to be here in the first place. It’s the ultimate “it never should have happened” moment.
For me, though, it’s the cultural disconnect and total lack of remorse for the taking of human lives that makes my blood boil. We’ve been fatally generous and hospitable to foreign invaders, at the expense of our own safety, prosperity, and sovereignty.
It’s time for another dose of prescription-strength Deportemal: Bollywood Edition.
The Portly Politico 
All you need to do is take one look at England and the problems created by successive governments, regarding illegal migration, to know that we know exactly what you mean. There are loads of ‘it needn’t have happened’ moments but those who say that tend to get locked up for apparent racism. 🙈
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Goodness, yes—I have been following the news over there, and y’all’s situation is appalling.
Five years ago, I never would have written the following, but now I will: it is a travesty that England had an Indian Prime Minister. It flies in the face of reason. Imagine how India would respond if a white Englishman became their leader? Indians have proven to be a major liability to the West.
Again, I hate to write that, but I think it’s true. I’ve known plenty of great Indians—and we should always judge people as individuals in our daily lives—but as a culture, they are incompatible with Western ways.
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I think it depends on the religion. Sikhs are very passive and Sunak was a Sikh. Besides, he wasn’t our PM. As with Gordon Brown (2007-10), he was never elected by the public, he was installed by the Tories as leader of their party and as they were governing at the time, defacto PM. When that choice went to the people, the public dispensed with his party. Unfortunately to put something worse in but that’s been the state of politics in the UK for over a century.
Look who I’m talking to though…independents in America for the first few elections and then 2 parties for the majority of your history. You can’t always get a Trump, a Lincoln, a Reagan. What happens when your elections pit a RINO against a Dem? Where do you turn to?
Both of our countries could do with serious 3rd/4th party options. The main problem with a choice of two is there is no great incentive from either party to pick the best candidate.
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Good point. Nikki Haley, who was excellent Governor of South Carolina (although she is definitely a neocon—she should stay at the State level), is the daughter of Sikh immigrants. I like Vivek Ramaswamy, although he went full H1B on us.
Another thing I’ve changed my mind about—ten years ago, I would have scoffed at the idea of third parties as politically irrelevant (which, sadly, they still are) and argued that going through the Republican Party was the only way to be effective politically. Trump is a great example of that—he was essentially an independent who took over the Republican Party through sheer willpower and tenacity. In the past, I’ve had to go RINO over Dem; it’s never been fun! The problem is that any compellingly conservative third-party candidate in our system would just siphon votes away from the Republican candidate, which almost guarantees a Democratic victory (see also: 1912).
These structural and systemic issues are why I ultimately have shifted my focus to acting locally. It’s the only feasible option. I have virtually zero control over what happens in D.C.; I have a great deal more so in my community.
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One thing about trucking in America: there are two general types, long-haul and short-haul. And, short haul has been a problem for decades due to companies “expending” their truckers by forcing them to speed and otherwise behave badly until they burn their CDL. That, in turn, leads to more and more young, poorly trained truckers and those same companies having to take on just about anyone with a CDL.
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Thanks for sharing, jonolan. I did not consider the issue with companies “burning” through short-haul truckers. Anything to make a buck, it seems!
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I got interested in this a few weeks ago after nearly observing a flammable materials truck from New Hampshire 1) tailgating several vehicles, 2) passing them on the right, and then 3) nearly running me off an offramp.
American addiction to cheap labor and extractive capitalism will destroy us.
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AMEN, DP! I think we sometimes overplay safety at the expense of practicality and liberty, but when it comes to drive a truck full of flammable materials, I want the guy to have a basic appreciation for human life—and for his employer to do the same! I’d also prefer he not be part of a caste system that favors members of his own narrow ethnicity at the expense of everyone else.
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