Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) investigators revealed the driver couldn’t even pass a professional English test. Out of 12 questions, he got only two right. Out of four road signs, he identified just one. Yet this man was given a Commercial Driver’s License and allowed to operate an 80,000-pound vehicle on our highways. The paper trail makes it worse. Washington State issued him a full-term CDL in 2023—even though asylum seekers and those without legal status aren’t even eligible. California then handed him a limited-term CDL in 2024. Now FMCSA is investigating how this happened. By July 2025, New Mexico police stopped him for speeding. They issued a ticket but never tested his English proficiency—even though a new federal rule requires it. New Mexico hasn’t enforced the rule at all. Three weeks later, people were dead. This is what happens when bureaucracy ignores common sense. Agencies push paperwork. States shuffle licenses around. Rules exist on paper but vanish on the road. This crash wasn’t just tragic—it was preventable. The warning signs were flashing for years. But the system let him slip through every crack.