The illegal immigrant truck driver accused of killing three people in a massive wreck on a Florida highway has been sent back to the Sunshine State after fleeing to sanctuary state California – with the Trump administration announcing it was halting all work visas for commercial drivers just hours later.

Harjinder Singh, 28, was loaded onto a plane in California Thursday and flown back to Florida, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety.

The Indian national was arrested by the US Marshals in California, one of two states where he has a commercial driver’s license.

He was busted after allegedly fleeing back to the state following the Aug. 12 crash, Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins told reporters while personally escorting Singh to Florida.

“We’re here today because of tragedy,” Collins said, according to WFLA. “Three lives lost. Three Floridians’ lives ended early.”

Within hours of Singh’s transfer across the country — and after a week of horrifying headlines about the crash — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a pause to all issuances of commercial truck driver work visas.

“The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on US roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers,” Rubio wrote on social media.

Rubio said the pause was “effective immediately.”

Singh faces three counts of vehicular homicide for allegedly making an illegal U-turn across a busy Florida highway in his tractor trailer.

Footage from the terrifying incident showed Singh driving the massive truck through an “Official Use Only” cut-through on a highway and blocking nearly all lanes of traffic — leaving a black minivan driving behind him nowhere to go, and crashing at speed into the trailer.

All three people in the van were killed, while Singh appeared hauntingly unmoved as he watched the minivan barrel into his trailer and become wedged underneath, according to footage inside the cab that was released to the public.

Singh is believed to have entered the US illegally in 2018, and somehow managed to obtain commercial driver’s licenses in both California and Washington.

When questioned by investigators after the accident, he failed to demonstrate English proficiency or the ability to read US highway signs, the US Department of Transportation said in a startling announcement Tuesday.

During that interview, Singh was able to answer only two of 12 questions testing his English fluency, and identify just one out of four road signs he was shown.

Federal law has mandated for years that commercial driver’s license holders must be proficient in English, while California’s test for the permit is administered only in English.

Singh was detained after he entered the country over the Mexican border in 2018, but was released by 2019 after claiming he was fearful of returning to India.

He was initially denied a work permit, but later granted one in 2021.

By 2023 he had obtained his commercial driver’s license in Washington, then his California license in 2024.

It remains unclear if Singh would serve time in the US if convicted of the murders, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already issued a detainer – which means he could be deported soon, but also ensures he will remain in custody.