Many of California’s illegal immigrants feel they’re in the driver’s seat

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 07/05/16 | Pauline Bartolone

[artichokegrower]

Juan Valentin learned to drive in the agricultural fields around Stockton. An undocumented immigrant from Tijuana, Mexico, he spent the next 10 years on California roads without a license, seeing little choic

[artichokegrower]

California’s policies are approaching “de facto state citizenship” for illegal immigrants, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at UC Riverside.

Which is covered where in the Constitution?

[Former Proud Canadian]

"Which is covered where in the Constitution? "

I think the constitution is almost dead. Pity, isn't it?

[Paulie]

The illegals are in the driver’s seat in more ways than one, I’m afraid.

But none of it could have happened if our elected officials and unaccountable alphabet agencies didn’t want it that way - they gave away the store on a silver platter, plain and simple.

[econjack]

A co-worker’s son got married a number of years ago and, on the way to the reception, a drunk illegal slammed into the parents of the bride, killing them both. The stupid judge let him out on $10,000 bail because he was “poor”. The illegal skipped on his bail and has not been seen since, but left a family of human wreckage in his wake. Makes me sick...and then very, very angry.

[oblomov]

actually, they sold the store to their patrons, even though it wasn’t theirs to sell.

[Blue Jays]

That is a truly horrific narrative. Sorry about the tragedy the family of your coworker suffered.
If one is going to commit a crime in the United States today, the best bet is to be an illegal alien.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The illegals are in the driver’s seat in more ways than one, I’m afraid.

Yup. They're being catered to in every respect by our political class, and may end up deciding the next Presidential election.

And then we're done.

[Redwood71]

They’re not in the drivers seat. they are in the back seat being chauffeured by the liberal government and have been for over 70 years. They are a major voting base for the libs who have been protecting them with lies and questionable state laws to keep them on the loop for votes since the 50’s when I was growing up in California. A whole lot of illegals were picking fruit on my grandfather’s ranch hired by the pickers and hidden away. They wee working for peanuts and didn’t care as it was a whole lot more than they could make in Mexico or further south. A lot of this money was shipped south to support families not yet over the border.

red

[Chicory]

This article does what so many do: conflate legal and illegal immigrants.

[EagleUSA]

“..If one is going to commit a crime in the United States today, the best bet is to be an illegal alien....”

Yes, you will be taken care of by the Governor himself. Juan Marilio Jeraldo Brown.

[Paulie]

“...and may end up deciding the next Presidential election.”
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I see in another thread the Gang of Eight is putting it into high gear all of a sudden. Call me a cynic, but what you just stated may well be the reason they’re doing this now.

[Blue Jays]

"...And then we're done..."

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I am so glad to have seen the once-great United States during our heyday years.
While seeking to remain hopeful and upbeat, the sheer volume of immigration numbers makes it challenging.

[artichokegrower]

“Today he’s now one of roughly 700,000 illegal immigrants with a California driver’s license.”

Hey what could go wrong?

Los Angeles Faces Hit-and-Run ‘Epidemic’
The I-Team examined data from the California Highway Patrol on all hit-and-run cases in Los Angeles County for 2015 and uncovered some startling figures behind the problem
By Robert Kovacik and Phil Drechsler

A hit-and-run crash occurs about once every 18 minutes in Los Angeles, according to data analyzed by the NBC4 I-Team that illustrates the extent of a problem that has been called an “epidemic.”

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Los-Angeles-LA-Hit-Run-Crash-Investigation-370821201.html

[dsrtsage]

If California was Mexico, Mexicans would sneak into Oregon

[combat_boots]

Make Mexico Spain Again

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Illegal immigrants own us. It wont be long before they and their children are the majority race here in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Kalifornia. They can have it. I want out of this commie hell hole. Beautiful with great weather, and still a Marxist sewer of idiocy.

[VRWCmember]

Which is covered where in the Constitution?

What difference, at this point, does it make?

[Nea Wood]

That story is all too common, unfortunately. Depending on who you listen to, illegals kill 12 to 28 Americans a day. Yet all we hear about is how precious illegals are, what an asset they are, and how anyone who opposes them is an evil racist and xenophobe.

[econjack]

...all we hear about is how precious illegals are, what an asset they are, and how anyone who opposes them is an evil racist and xenophobe.

Yep, I hear the same thing...usually from liberal Democrats. It couldn't be because they're buying votes, could it?

[tumblindice]

I was involved in a hit-and-run by an illegal while trying to deliver a cousin to LAX. He ran a stop sign and plowed into my VW.

Nobody hurt but `Juan’ didn’t even slow down.