CALIFORNIA, USA — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida last week.

Sending Florida's new Lt. Gov. Jay Collins underscores Republicans' push to crack down on illegal immigration. It also revs up a political rivalry between DeSantis and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, both of whom aspire to higher office.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that truck driver Harjinder Singh , a native of India, was in the country illegally.

“Three lives lost because of Gavin Newsom. Because of California’s failed policies," Collins said Thursday at a press conference near an airport in Stockton, California.

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