WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Dalilah Law. This legislation would require states to take specific measures to get illegal alien truck drivers off America’s roads to receive federal Department of Transportation funding.
At last night’s State of the Union, President Trump called on Congress to pass legislation called “the Dalilah Law” barring any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
Senator Jim Banks said, “Too many people have been hurt. Too many have been killed. Americans are paying the price because illegal drivers are being handed commercial driver’s licenses like candy and put behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks. That stops now. The Dalilah Law makes it clear: if you are here illegally, you do not get a CDL. We need to act and we need to act now.”
Read the full text here.
Key Provisions of the Dalilah Law:
The Dalilah Law would require states to take the following action items as a condition of Department of Transportation funding:
- Limiting trucking licenses to United States citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain work visa holders only.
- Revoking all trucking licenses currently issued to illegal aliens and aliens with temporary status, whether or not such persons have work authorization.
- Offering CDL knowledge and skill tests in English only.
Earlier this week, Senator Banks sent a letter to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs for an immediate investigation into potential “chameleon carrier” trucking networks operating in Indiana. Read the full letter here.
Last week, Senator Banks launched the Truck Safety Tipline for truckers and those who work in the trucking industry to share concerns about carriers employing or contracting with drivers who are not legally in the United States, who are not authorized to drive a truck, or who cannot meet required English-language safety standards.
Senator Banks spoke about the Dalilah Law and his Truck Safety Tipline on the Senate Floor this afternoon.
Dalilah Coleman is a 1st-grader who was severely injured in a six-car pileup caused by an illegal alien driving a semitruck with a CDL. The driver crossed the border in 2022 and was released into the country by the Biden administration.
On June 20, 2024, Partap Singh—an illegal alien from India—caused the multi-car pileup while driving a commercial 18-wheeler in the sanctuary state of California. Governor Newsom’s Department of Motor Vehicle’s issued him a commercial driver’s license.
According to the Dalilah’s father, the crash resulted in her inability to walk, talk, eat orally, or attend kindergarten as planned. She was in a coma for three weeks and required six months of hospital treatment before her family could bring her home. While in the hospital, she had a craniectomy and was without half of her skull for four months.
Dalilah experienced a broken femur, skull fractures, and has since been diagnosed with diplegic cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, and will need life-long therapy.
Last week in Hendricks County, Indiana, 64-year-old Terry Schultz from Carmel was killed by an illegal alien from India driving a semitruck who ran a red light at the intersection of U.S. 36 and County Road 525 East.
Earlier this month, a Kyrgyzstani national who crossed the southern border illegally in December 2023 and was let into the U.S. by the Biden administration by using the CBP One cell phone app killed four Indiana men after swerving into oncoming traffic on State Road 67 in Jay County. The victims of the accident include a 50-year-old father, his two sons, ages 19 and 25, and one other person.
In November 2025, a Georgian national who entered the country illegally during the Biden Administration in 2022 and was granted a commercial driver’s license by New York State caused a crash that killed Indiana National Guardsman Terry Frye. When the authorities tried to communicate with the foreign driver at the scene, they discovered that the driver could not speak English and required a translator, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
In October 2025, an illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro driving a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 20 in Portage, Indiana caused a multi-car accident that killed a 54-year-old. Despite being in the United States illegally since 2011, the driver owned two trucking companies that received over $36,000 in COVID-19 relief funding.
