{"id":195139,"date":"2026-02-26T17:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195139\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:59:31","slug":"bakersfield-girl-injured-in-crash-inspires-law-proposed-during-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195139\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield girl injured in crash inspires law proposed during State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 President Trump held the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, touching on many issues currently impacting our nation.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech, President Trump recognized a young girl from Bakersfield who was severely injured in a 2024 crash in the Mojave Desert<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved a semi-truck driver who authorities say was an undocumented immigrant from India.<\/p>\n<p>Dahlilah Coleman was left with life altering injuries, the president now using her story to urge congress to pass what he calls &#8220;The Dalilah Law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation would prohibit states from issuing commercial driver&#8217;s licenses to undocumented immigrants. <\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield College Adjunct Professor of Political Science Ian Anderson joined ARC Bakersfield to share more insight about how the law might impact the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 President Trump held the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, touching on many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-195139","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\/195139","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=195139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}