Mexico Prods State on Driver's Licenses

L.A. Times ^ | December 19, 2003 | By Richard Boudreaux , Times Staff Writer

[DumpsterDiver]

* Fox asks California to restore a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to hold the permits.

MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox called Thursday for the restoration of a California law that would allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, saying it would benefit more than 1 million Mexicans who are "working people … decent people."

"We will be fighting tooth and nail to convince the state of California to once again issue licenses to all Mexican migrants, independent of their legal status," he [Fox] told migrants in Nuevo Laredo. California should do this, he said, "because they are working people, because they are decent people, because they are honest people."

Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez has said Mexico will send a delegation to Sacramento in January to meet with the governor's staff.

[DumpsterDiver]

They never give up.

[DumpsterDiver]

Another article for the ping list.

[Servant of the 9]

would benefit more than 1 million Mexicans who are "working people … decent people.

Decent People?
They're Criminals.

So9

[Sabertooth]

"We will be fighting tooth and nail to convince the state of California to once again issue licenses to all Mexican migrants, independent of their legal status," he [Fox] told migrants in Nuevo Laredo. California should do this, he said, "because they are working people, because they are decent people, because they are honest people."

Then he won't mind taking them back.

[templar]

... "because they are working people, because they are decent people, because they are honest people."

And because you really don't want them back in Mexico.

[LasVegasMac]

We need a Fox filter.

LVM

[BookmanTheJanitor]

how about Mexico sending the criminals who committed crimes in America (this includes cop killers), but are now in Mexico, back to America....instead of protecting them

[DumpsterDiver]

I am getting to the end of my rope with that damn country and with the government of this one.

I thought foreign governments had no business sending delegations to the U.S. to meet with officials (other than the feds). This just burns me up!

[pogo101]

Gimme, gimme, gimme.

DLs for illegals, or you're a racist.

Oh, and by the way, we won't extradite anyone from Mexico who might -- MIGHT -- get sentenced to more than 60 years in prison, or to death.

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Yeah, Mexico. You're really on our good side now.

[PRND21]

Decent People? They're Criminals.

Commiting a misdemeanor makes you indecent?
Ridiculous, just like the notion of giving them a license.

[Viking2002]

Fox can go p!ss up a rope. His country is polluted, corrupt, it's citizens are spilling over our borders like a slowly rising flood, and that maggot has the stones to dictate domestic policy to us?

[American Infidel]

How pathetic is this? The president of a country asking that a neighboring country allow ILLEGAL immigrants from his country to obtain driver's licenses. This guy is unbelievable. I can't even imagine a US president asking that Canada allow ILLEGAL immigrants from the US to obtain driver's licenses. I guess it really shouldn't be all that surprising given that money sent back to Mexico from the US is the biggest stimulant to the Mexican economy. Hey Vince, how about working to create an economic infrastructure in YOUR country, so that people won't want to sneak into the US illegally? What a mess. I wonder if I could get a DL in Mexico.

[skeeter]

Prod this.

[onedoug]

For all its resources and human potential, Mexico's chief export remains its impoverished masses.

Yup. Voting out the PRI sure made a difference down there, alright.

[VU4G10]

Suspects arrested less than hour after west-side home invasion


Police arrested three suspects in connection with a west-side home invasion Tuesday, less than an hour after the victims wrote down their assailants' license plate number.

Luz Maria Dominguez was at her home near 70th Avenue and Thomas Road at noon Tuesday when four men came to the door. Dominguez let them in because she knew two of them casually.

They chatted for about five minutes, Dominguez said, then all four men pulled out pistols and demanded money and jewelry. A former boyfriend of one of Dominguez's teenage daughters, they said, had told them that Dominguez was selling jewelry out of her home.

"I don't sell jewels," she said.

There were six people in the house at the time: Dominguez and her two teenage daughters; her friend Carmen Cruz and Cruz's husband, Johnny Moreno, who arrived from Puerto Rico a month ago; and a second man identified only as William.

The gunmen tied up the men with belts and electrical cords and locked the women in a bedroom while they ransacked the house.

At one point, they asked Dominguez for her keys so that they could move her car. Then they backed their car into the garage, closed the garage door, and loaded it with stolen goods. According to police reports, the thieves took a cellphone, DVD player, a computer and CDs.

The thieves insisted that there must be jewelry, Dominguez said.

"I told them I didn't have anything, look in my pocketbook," she said.

One of them responded, "Give me the jewels or we'll take one of your daughters."

Dominguez said that the men spent about an hour in the house, and according to police reports, they even watched pornography on Dominguez's TV and made remarks about it to her daughters.

When the gunmen left, Dominguez and Cruz untied the men, then Cruz looked out the window to get the license plate number as they fled.

The police traced the plate to a house in the 1700 block of West Vogel Avenue, where they arrested David Manuel Mendoza, 19; Javier Quiroz Gonzales, 21; and Juan Manuel DeLeon, 27. All three men are natives of Mexico. The fourth suspect was not found.

Each was charged with six counts of kidnapping and robbery and one count of first-degree burglary.

[Glenn]

Commiting a misdemeanor makes you indecent? Ridiculous, just like the notion of giving them a license.

Well, make up your mind!

[DumpsterDiver]

Each was charged with six counts of kidnapping and robbery and one count of first-degree burglary.

Gee, I hope they don't get deported. Did they have drivers' licenses? /sarcasm

[Blue Screen of Death]

I drive in Mexico on my Texas license. Why don't they just drive on their Mexican license?

[PRND21]

My mind is made up. No license for non-citizens.
However, saying that all people who commit a misdemeanor are no longer decent is ridiculous.

[John Jorsett]

Extradite the cop killers that are residing in your country and then we'll think about considering to contemplate maybe talking about driver's licenses for illegals. Otherwise, stuff it.