[BAW]

Police Chief says, "He said the checkpoints have helped reduce the number of hit-and-run accidents from more than 600 a year in 2004 to 433 last year. In 2008, 280 citations were issued and 221 vehicles impounded. "

For geographic reference, the city of Escondido is located about 50 miles north of the Mexican border.

[WesternPacific]

"Driver's license checkpoints are fishing expeditions for illegal immigrants"

What part of illegal does this ACLU Lawyer not understand?

[Beowulf9]

Should be called SACLU (South American Civil Liberties Union).

[wac3rd]

Napolitano acts like illegals have committed no crime, just like her Swiss cheese border in Arizona.

The Left will not rest until we are all poor and dependent on government...making millions of illegals legal are votes and more people who will need the government for life.

Liberalism is doublespeak for slavery...kindness in exchange for the soul.

[Myrddin]

If you are driving a vehicle, you have an obligation to produce license, registration and proof of insurance when demanded by a peace officer. That applies to all drivers. It's not a fishing expedition if it applies to everyone who passes through the checkpoint. If there is a certain group that has no damn business driving illegally on the public streets, they need to be identified and removed.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[ArmstedFragg]

The city of Escondido also passed a short-lived ordinance banning rental of apartments to illegal aliens. We’ve been on the ACLU target list ever since. Interestingly enough, they told another local paper that they had nothing to do with El Grupo’s activities... which is a little funny because they’re part of El Grupo and held the El Grupo news conference at ACLU headquarters. Their ‘evidence’ of the checkpoints being used for immigration enforcement consists of one woman in the entire year of 2008 who was stopped for being unlicensed, and upon being checked for warrants was found to have a federal immigration warrant. Escondido committed the (to ACLU) “unpardonable sin” of turning a wanted fugitive over to the agency that wanted her.

It’s the same story with a new cover, they want to be able to drive unlicensed and uninsured and they’re unhappy because the rest of us don’t want then on the road. There’s more on the same story here: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/04/21/news/inland/escondido/ze83eaa56ab2284248825759f00787abd.txt