Serial Drunk Driver Who Killed 8-Year-Old Finally in ICE Custody After Years of Biden Administration Neglect

A foreign national who slaughtered an innocent 8-year-old boy while drunk behind the wheel—then racked up two additional DUI arrests after serving a pathetically short prison sentence—is finally in federal immigration custody, marking yet another damning indictment of the Biden administration’s catastrophic open-border policies.

Karmjit Singh, an Indian national who had already overstayed his visa and carried a felony DUI conviction, was barreling drunk through California streets in his BMW sports car at over 100 miles per hour in 2019 when he obliterated another vehicle.

The collision killed Maverick Martzen, an exceptional 8-year-old baseball prodigy with his entire life ahead of him. The crash also left Maverick’s parents, Scott and Brooke, with severe injuries that will haunt them forever.

A Mockery of Justice

Scott Martzen expected justice. Any reasonable American would have anticipated a sentence of 25 years to life for a repeat offender who killed a child while driving drunk at felony speeds.

Instead, Singh walked out of prison after just three years.

Three years for ending the life of an innocent child. Three years for destroying a family. Three years for a foreign national who had already proven himself a menace to society with a prior felony DUI conviction.

The leniency proved catastrophic.

The Predator Returns

Upon his release, Singh immediately demonstrated that California’s weak-kneed criminal justice system had taught him absolutely nothing. He promptly racked up two more DUI arrests in less than six months.

In June 2023, police arrested him at 2 a.m. for drunk driving. When officers pulled him over, Singh handed them his brother Parminder’s driver’s license in a fraudulent attempt to conceal his identity.

Police discovered the deception, confirmed his license was suspended for manslaughter, and then—incredibly—released him back onto the streets.

Five months later in November 2023, the exact same scenario unfolded. Same criminal. Same crime. Same pathetic response from law enforcement.

Biden’s ICE Holds Mean Nothing

After his second post-release DUI arrest, Singh returned to prison for another brief stint. On January 30, 2025, California corrections officials released him on parole.

Here’s where the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement failures become crystal clear: Despite an active ICE hold requesting that Singh be transferred to federal custody for deportation, California authorities released him anyway.

Scott Martzen received zero notification from any government agency that his son’s killer was walking free again. He discovered Singh’s release only by checking the California prison system’s website himself.

“Second chance. Third chance. Fourth chance. Fifth chance,” Martzen said. “Our son never got one more day.”

Finally: Federal Action

Singh is now detained at the California City Corrections Center, a massive ICE holding facility that can house up to 2,500 individuals. The facility, which reopened in 2026 as part of expanded immigration enforcement operations, represents the largest immigration detention center in California.

This detention comes after years of the Biden administration’s willful negligence and California’s sanctuary state policies that prioritized the comfort of a serial criminal over the safety of American families.

The transfer to ICE custody signals that Singh will finally face the deportation he should have received after his first felony DUI conviction in 2016—nearly a decade ago.

A Preventable Tragedy

Scott Martzen has been unequivocal in his assessment: Maverick would be “100%” alive today if the federal government had simply enforced existing immigration laws and deported Singh after his first felony conviction.

The math is simple and heartbreaking. One deported criminal equals one living child. One enforced immigration law equals one intact family. One functioning system equals one future that will never be.

“What does it take” to be deported, Martzen asked. “He killed a kid, he’s got an expired visa, no drivers license, two DUIs, a third that should have been a DUI but was lowered, and he’s still able to live here… it’s beyond frustrating.”

Beyond frustrating doesn’t begin to cover it. This is a wholesale abandonment of the social contract between government and governed.

The Cost of Leniency

Every birthday that passes without Maverick. Every holiday with an empty chair. Every baseball season without the talented athlete who was selected first in a draft of 12-year-olds when he was only 8 years old.

“Every birthday, every holiday, every baseball season, we live with the reality that Maverick is gone,” Scott Martzen said. “Our younger son is growing up without his big brother because one man chose to drink and drive, and a system keeps giving him chance after chance.”

The Martzen family has channeled their unspeakable grief into purpose, establishing the M30 nonprofit to support young athletes in Maverick’s memory. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when Major League Baseball played before empty stands, a cardboard cutout of Maverick occupied a seat at the San Francisco Giants’ stadium—a small tribute to a life cut devastatingly short.

The Broader Failure

Singh’s case exposes the rotten core of Biden-era immigration enforcement. An illegal immigrant with a felony conviction kills a child, serves a fraction of the appropriate sentence, commits additional crimes, and continues receiving chances that his victim will never have.

This isn’t immigration policy. This is civilizational suicide.

The question Scott Martzen posed deserves an answer from every politician who enabled this nightmare: What does it take to remove a dangerous foreign national from American soil?

A felony DUI wasn’t enough. Killing an 8-year-old boy wasn’t enough. Two additional drunk driving arrests weren’t enough. Identity fraud wasn’t enough.

Apparently, nothing short of a complete change in federal administration was sufficient to finally move the bureaucracy to action.

No Second Chances for Victims

The progressive mantra of endless second chances sounds compassionate in faculty lounges and campaign speeches. In reality, it produces dead children and shattered families.

Maverick Martzen was an advanced student, a gifted athlete, and by all accounts, a loving son. He represented everything America should nurture and protect. His killer represented everything our immigration system should have removed years before that fatal collision.

The country gained nothing from Singh’s presence. It lost everything when Maverick died.

As Scott Martzen noted, America is “not at all” better for having housed and protected a serial drunk driver who never should have been here in the first place. Meanwhile, the extraordinary promise shown by Maverick—cut short at age 8—represents an immeasurable loss to his family, his community, and the nation.

Singh’s belated detention in ICE custody offers no comfort to the Martzen family. Their son is gone forever. But it does provide a stark lesson in the consequences of lax immigration enforcement and the deadly price American families pay when politicians prioritize ideology over public safety.

Justice delayed is justice denied. For Maverick Martzen, justice came too late.