(and he is also apparently not registered as a CDL holder in Mexico). Somewhere between the police report and the court system, they managed to give him less than a year in jail, reduced his 364 day sentence to subtract 81 days for time already served, listed everything as misdemeanor traffic charges, and then to add perfect insult to all this injury, Jefferson County jail now has his race listed as “white”.

In July, FMCSA declared his employer (Monique Trucking) an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered them to cease all interstate and intrastate operations after the leadership demonstrated a lack of knowledge of safety regulations and has also had multiple violations within the past two years preceding the crash. They employed more than just Ignacio without a valid CDL from what I can tell, so this issue may be much bigger than what I have been researching. In this specific case, I do not have nearly enough words to describe all the failures of our many systems.