{"id":193368,"date":"2026-02-25T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:54:38","slug":"trump-highlights-bakersfield-girl-hurt-in-mojave-crash-backs-dalilah-law-cdl-ban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193368\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump highlights Bakersfield girl hurt in Mojave crash, backs \u2018Dalilah Law\u2019 CDL ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 President Donald Trump used part of his State of the Union address Tuesday night<\/a> to spotlight a Bakersfield girl who was severely injured in a Mojave Desert crash and to push for a new proposal aimed at restricting commercial driver\u2019s licenses (CDL) for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

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During the address, Trump introduced Dalilah Coleman<\/a>, the Bakersfield girl who was severely injured after a crash involving an undocumented immigrant from India in the Mojave Desert.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease stand up,\u201d Trump said, prompting applause.<\/p>\n

Trump urged Congress to pass what he called the \u201cDalilah Law,\u201d which would prohibit states from giving commercial driver\u2019s licenses to undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

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A father is demanding accountability after his 5-year-old daughter was badly hurt in a 6-vehicle crash in the Mojave Desert on Thursday, June 20, 2024. (Photo Courtesy: Marcus Coleman)<\/p>\n

The crash happened in June 2024, when a semi-truck driver crashed into five other cars in the Mojave Desert. Dalilah was pinned in the back seat of her car and suffered life-altering injuries.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Father seeks justice after daughter critically injured in Mojave Desert pile-up crash<\/a><\/p>\n

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The accused driver was described as an undocumented immigrant from India. He was arrested in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 President Donald Trump used part of his State of the Union address Tuesday night to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-193368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}