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Behind the wheel without a license: Migrants buying cars to make a life in Chicago
Chicago Tribune via MSN ^ | March 18, 2024 | Nell Salzman and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune

Posted on 03/18/2024 4:26:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Behind a West Loop migrant shelter, dozens of cars sit without license plates.

Several of their owners stand nearby, acknowledging they lack licenses to drive them.

But they increasingly have been driving, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of police data that suggests sharp rises in arrests among migrants for breaking traffic laws. The analysis found many are now being detained in Chicago each week for driving- or vehicle-related infractions, roughly at five times the rate from last summer.

“Start where you are. Do what you can. Use what you have,” said Jose Fernandez, 30, from Trujillo, Venezuela.

It’s difficult to know for sure how many migrants are charged or ticketed because police don’t keep precise data on when they arrest asylum-seekers. But what is often available in arrest data — the arrestees’ country of birth — suggests that driving- and vehicle-related offenses have become the primary reason migrants end up being detained by officers.

The Tribune focused on arrestees born in Venezuela because census figures show few native Venezuelans lived in Chicago before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants north 18 months ago, and city officials say that Venezuelans make up the majority of the more than 37,000 migrants who’ve arrived since.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; illegalimmigration; migrants
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1 posted on 03/18/2024 4:26:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Buying….stealing…whatever.


2 posted on 03/18/2024 4:27:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Theyre illegal aliens ???

Oh well its all right then...


3 posted on 03/18/2024 4:28:51 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Gee, when you illegally come to a country from a country run be crooks and corruption you know how to beat the system to survive. I can’t wait until they start taking over control of local governments, our politicians do not stand a chance. People from countries which do not value law and order (not saying Chicago does) know how to get right to the heart of an issue. Time for Chicago to understand the new way which will be coming…… Plata o plomo!


4 posted on 03/18/2024 4:34:53 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Chicago has lotsa public transportation. They aren’t buying cars to go to work and back.
This is just making the argument they should be given id. As long as it says non citizen across the front, I am cool with that. Voting is a citizen right. Non citizens are not protected by the constitution.


5 posted on 03/18/2024 4:35:45 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: Tennessee Nana

No, it’s not alright, but I understand that it’s hard to control them. The first thing that has to be done is to control the border. Maybe even before that is to arrest Joe Biden and others for not doing their part in upholding the Constitution as part of their oath of office. Why is this not being done? We have to start somewhere & this would seem to be the place to start.


6 posted on 03/18/2024 4:37:26 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

...Before Governor Abbot assisted migrants, drawn into the country by their promises, to the big, welcoming sanctuary cities like Chicago, the author means...


7 posted on 03/18/2024 4:37:39 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Sirius Lee

Start where you are......from Trujillo, Venezuela.

Then, go back home to Trujillo


8 posted on 03/18/2024 4:43:17 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unlicensed, uninsured vehicles driven by illegal unlicensed drivers should be crushed.

The cars that is.


9 posted on 03/18/2024 4:49:47 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Thanks for posting.


10 posted on 03/18/2024 4:54:00 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe it’s too late now, but man oh man, I would LOVE to see this open border backfire on Biden and democrats like an atomic bomb and I think one way to have done that would have been to start a campaign telling these illegals this......

“Joe Biden and democrats have tricked you, they led you to believe if you came to the USA there would be a lot of jobs and money but as you can see now, that is not true. They instead wanted you to come here as slaves so they could use you for votes! But don’t allow them to trick you again!! They want to turn the USA into the same kind of country you escaped from! But you can fight back! When the time comes and they allow you to vote, vote for Donald Trump and the Republicans who freed the black people from democrats slavery and lies, who set records for jobs under Donald Trump. Don’t be tricked again, save yourself!”

Translated into Spanish, maybe I should send it to AOC LOL

“Joe Biden y los demócratas te han engañado, te hicieron creer que si venías a los EE. UU. habría muchos empleos y dinero, pero como puedes ver ahora, eso no es cierto. En cambio, querían que vinieras aquí como esclavos. ¡Para que puedan utilizarte para obtener votos! ¡Pero no permitas que te engañen de nuevo! ¡Quieren convertir a Estados Unidos en el mismo tipo de país del que escapaste! ¡Pero podrás contraatacar! Cuando llegue el momento y te lo permitan. “Vota, vota por Donald Trump y los republicanos que liberaron a los negros de la esclavitud democrática, que establecieron récords de empleo bajo Donald Trump. ¡No te dejes engañar de nuevo, sálvate a ti mismo!”


11 posted on 03/18/2024 4:58:11 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Sirius Lee

Of course no liability insurance as well.


12 posted on 03/18/2024 5:08:45 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever in November. If he loses in 2024, country is finished.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

An American if pulled over by law enforcement is subject to arrest / towing of vehicle / substantial fines and then the cost of probation for a year or more . All of this from having no/suspended license , no insurance/unregistered. Then after you get out of court after arraignment your stranded and you have probably lost your job....(don’t ask me how I know) Deport every single one these souls back to whence they came. If they don’t we are headed for anarchy and survival of the fittest. A nation of laws not men.


13 posted on 03/18/2024 5:11:25 AM PDT by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A friend on a walk stopped to talk to what appeared to be a street vendor. The vendor was a Mexican and he always had four or five used cars sitting out front with no signage. The friend wanted to know if one of the cars was for sale, as they seldom sat there long. The guy kept saying you no want this car. A stack of valid, in date, license plates lay nearby.

Conclusion, the cars were either stolen or could not be legally licensed. (If you don’t have a signed title in Florida, you can’t license the car. Period.) But if you’ve paid cash and you buy a plate with a valid sticker, you can pretty much drive it anywhere. Get in an accident? Drive or walk away.

It’s hard to believe the authorities don’t know about this trade. I see these guys pop up here and there and sometimes they just move on to some other place. The only people you ever see there are foreigners. As someone pointed out regarding illegals, the law and ordinances are only enforced against the white middle class. A deputy once told me, “I don’t stop a car full of blacks or illegals unless I have to. I’m required to run wants and warrants and sure as hell, one of them will pop up and it takes up the rest of the day. I stop old white people as it’s a quick stop, I write the ticket and I’m on my way.”


14 posted on 03/18/2024 5:16:02 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Where do they get the money for the car?


15 posted on 03/18/2024 5:17:47 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Lockbox

and the Caucasian Democrat finally lost to the Hispanic Democrat due mail-in ballots that were discovered...

¡Correo es grande!


16 posted on 03/18/2024 5:17:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They drive like morons. Very aggressive and no clue how the rules of the road work.


17 posted on 03/18/2024 5:19:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: mythenjoseph
If they don’t we are headed for anarchy and survival of the fittest.

By the time I was old enough to vote (the Obama years), I assumed we were headed for anarchy and survival of the fittest.

18 posted on 03/18/2024 5:20:14 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Be careful. If one of them hits your car, it is you who will pay. Your insurance company will fix your car and raise your rates.

The illegal will get back in the car and be free to cause more accidents.


19 posted on 03/18/2024 5:23:03 AM PDT by dforest
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Stolen car

Paper plates

No insurance

No drivers license

That is every third car you see in Houston.


20 posted on 03/18/2024 5:25:12 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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