Adam Coleman joined Liz Collin on her podcast. (Alpha News)
Adam B. Coleman, a journalist who has been exposing the dangers on the road—and the victims who have been left behind—joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about his latest research and his heartbreaking documentary on the subject currently in production.
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Coleman, a contributor to the New York Post and Human Events and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing, spoke with Collin about his latest work that focuses on the dangers of illegal alien truck drivers on the road.
In speaking about illegal aliens behind the wheel of big rigs, Coleman said it’s a problem that’s difficult to identify, mainly “due to politics.”
He explained that when illegal alien truck drivers are involved in accidents, the response from state police and government officials varies: “Sometimes the states know that this person is illegal and they don’t care. Sometimes ICE finds out, but there is no honoring of the detainer depending on what state it’s in.”
As an example of this, Coleman said, “There’s a family I’ll be interviewing that lives in Utah. I was talking to the sister who lost her brother in the state of Washington … a sanctuary state. ICE put a detainer for this person and as of right now, this person is still sort of free or in some sort of legal limbo.”
Coleman also spoke about how politics makes it difficult to track these truckers: “States may or may not be interested in the legal status of that particular person and frankly, these people live underneath the radar, so they just kind of disappear.”
He then talked about how the mainstream media has been contributing to the problem: “The media—especially the mainstream media—has zero interest in the legal status of a particular person who gets into an accident. Often they don’t even say the name of the person who is driving the truck.”
‘Chameleon carriers’
As part of his work on the victims of crashes involving illegal alien truck drivers, Coleman has been investigating the “chameleon carriers” who employ them.
For example, a wrong-way truck driver from Minnesota, who could not speak English, was traced to “Cargo Transportation LLC.” According to government information, the company is operated by Abdiwali Ahmed out of a one-bedroom apartment in Hopkins.
“Chameleon carriers are often run by foreign-organized crime, foreign elements who are hiring people from their particular country,” Coleman added.
A truck driver holding a Minnesota commercial driver’s license drove the wrong way for miles on a Missouri highway. (X/Screenshot)
Coleman explained that “the chameleon carriers are the ones who are hiring the illegal immigrants … it’s organized crime that is constructed from foreign entities within our borders and sometimes they’re being orchestrated outside of our borders as well, which is another aspect of it.”
“They’ll hire a driver who is illegal. They’ll have that driver set up an LLC under their name. And what they’ll do is rotate back and forth between several company names … I’ve seen this several times where one apartment has three different trucking companies assigned to it,” Coleman said.
“They do that for several reasons. If they get into an accident and the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) comes snooping around and they shut down that company, well, they already have two other companies that they’re operating under,” Coleman explained.
Adding to the dangers of illegal alien truck drivers, especially those who cannot read English, are the ways the drivers flout truck driving laws and limits.
“Regulations say that an American truck driver or any truck driver, they’re not allowed to drive more than 11 hours consecutively. With the chameleon truck drivers and the chameleon carriers … when they reach that 11-hour point, they might have them switch which company they’re driving for, so that single driver can continue. So many of these guys are completely exhausted. They drive for 20 hours—and they drive for way cheaper than the American citizen,” Coleman said.
In an article he wrote for the New York Post, Coleman estimated that there are about 200,000 illegal commercial drivers still on the road across America,
These drivers and the tragedies that they have caused are the focus of Coleman’s upcoming documentary “Illegal Highways.”
“Unfortunately, there’s always going to be people who are killed in some sort of road accidents, including semi-trucks. But for each illegal immigrant who’s put behind the wheel, that’s something that is preventable,” he said.
“That’s something that shouldn’t have happened. So these are what I would call excess deaths, excess accidents, excess tragedies that we see in our country. And I want these stories of the people who are suffering because they lost someone. They lost a loved one because of something of a systemic failure,” Coleman said.
“These are very difficult stories … but I think it’s incredibly needed because no one’s hearing them,” he added.
Coleman is also the author of “The Children We Left Behind, How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation and Ignores the Pain of Child Neglect” and “Black Victim to Black Victor.”
“I’m an example of speaking out and going against the status quo … just a regular guy who decided to write a book and speak out and help people and affect change. I think it’s always important if you feel called to say something, then say something,” Coleman said.
Liz Collin
Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
Dr. JC Chaix
Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” and “Minnesota v We the People.”