Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker after a deadly truck crash on a highway in Kansas City earlier this week. On Monday afternoon on Interstate 71 in Kansas City, Missouri, a truck struck three stopped vehicles.
A 35-year-old mother and her two sons, ages 9 and 6, were killed in the crash. Seven other people were injured. The truck driver, 39-year-old Eldar Skander, has been charged in connection with the crash and is being held in county jail, where he is detained at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE’s official account on X said Skander is an “illegal immigrant from Ukraine.”
Skander uses a driver’s license with a Chicago address, according to court documents filed Tuesday in Jackson County, Missouri. He faces three counts of involuntary manslaughter. “Americans have a right to know whether the drivers they share the roads with are in the country legally and fully qualified to safely operate heavy commercial vehicles,” Kehoe wrote Friday on X. “In Missouri, we apply rigorous procedures to ensure drivers are properly vetted and roads are safe,” he emphasized.
Kehoe said he sent Pritzker a letter urging him to immediately review and thoroughly overhaul Illinois’ procedures for issuing commercial licenses to truck drivers, “to ensure thorough vetting that will eliminate illegal immigrants with criminal records.” “When a state fails to vet applicants before handing them the keys to a commercial tractor-trailer, the consequences don’t end at that state’s border,” Kehoe said.
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Source: Polski.FM
