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Posted on 05/06/2005 9:27:55 PM PDT by nonessential-personel
Senator pushes to exempt illegal immigrants' vehicles from being impounded
By Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Stymied by his efforts to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has proposed a measure that would exempt undocumented motorists from vehicle-impound laws. Under current law, police can impound for 30 days the vehicle of a motorist caught driving without a valid license. Cedillo's bill would exempt those who don't have a license simply because they are not legal U.S. residents.
Cedillo said law enforcement resources should be dedicated to pursuing serious driving offenses such as drunk driving, not licensing violations by undocumented immigrants.
"That's what the money should be spent for, not towing people's cars who are taking their citizen-kids to school, church or the supermarket," Cedillo said. "It's just a bad policy and it doesn't make sense."
Unlike his measure that would make illegal immigrants eligible for licenses, which was repealed under pressure from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cedillo has pushed for his new bill quietly.
In fact, one of the strongest opponents to Cedillo's driver's-license measure, Mike Spence, president of the conservative group California Republican Assembly, was unaware of the latest bill until contacted for comment.
Spence said the bill appears to apply a "double standard" because legal residents whose licenses were suspended or revoked still would be punished.
"If you're a citizen and you break one law, your car will be impounded for 30 days. If you're already breaking another law and you break this law, you get away with it free. It's a "Get-your-car-out-of-impound-free card' for illegal aliens, and it's wrong."
His sentiment was echoed by at least one local immigration activist, who added that by making the proposal, Cedillo himself is breaking the law.
"He's not interesed in abiding by the law, as his oath of office requires him," said Andy Ramirez, chairman of Friends of the Border Patrol, a Chino group that supports Border Patrol agents. "The only thing he's interesed in is breaking the law and allowing lawbreakers to do just that.' -SNIP-
That’s irrelevant. They can say whatever they like. We didn’t say it, or make a formal treaty to accept that provision as far as I know.
You bettcha! It would have happened if Bubba and Janet ran the show. As it is, the Minutemen got a pass - this time.
The least we would have seen would be brigades of ATFE ninjas with police dogs and handcuffed grandmothers being dragged to paddywagons only to be indicted under some felony charge or other and the trial venue moved to South Central L.A.!
There would be NO violation of the "law" permitted, nosiree.
yeah ,... let Cedillo wave his own flag[LaRaza] , give 'em plenty of rope
Is this guy for real? He wants the illegals to be above the law?
We have Federal laws to cover this sort of thing but it is the local officials who thumb their noses and say they are not going to comply. Then the Feds back off and let them get away with it.
These issues need to be put on the front burner so that more people in America know about them and the contempt our governments have for it's own citizens.
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I agree with him. We should not impound their cars. However, we should impound them, until they can be shipped back wherever they came from.
What part of "ILLEGAL" do they not get?
I have a great sense of admiration for many who have come here without going through proper channels. There's something very American about someone who doesn't exactly follow all of the particulars of every law. We're a nation of semi-anarchists and I welcome those who can beat the system to get here but then settle down and become Americans in fact (not hyphenated Americans intent on removing the "American" from their label, like La Raza).
But I have no sympathy for someone who claims that we owe them anything when they have broken the law to get here.
You wanna extort from me by legislation and court edict? We can get our own laws and our own court orders and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
I was living near Miami in the very early '80s and remember bumber stickers that basically said the same thing. Funny, how things never change, do they?
Bush didn't create the problem but he has the power to fix most of it but refuses to. He also makes the problem worse by denouncing efforts to stem illegal immigration and praising the illegals.
Since he has the power to fix most of this problem but refuses to, then yes, he does deserve a lot of blame.
Yawn. Say hello to John Birch for me.
Sen. Cedillo is a traitor and I'm confused why he isn't being treated as one.
They are doing a new MMP in San Diego, scheduled for August.
That, the Channel 62 signs (and the great KFI response), the new ID requirements, the proposal in CA to establish a california border patrol -- the illegal immigration issue is getting legs like it has never had before.
I agree. I stand by our President on almost all his issues, but lately there have been things that make me question his judgement. The illegal alien problem is one, that "hand-holding" episode made me sick to my stomach is another. His constant refusal to call terrorism by it's real name, Islam, is the biggest of all, though.
We should take their cars and anything else that they have here in America with them, sell it all and use the funds to send them back where they came from, and to prevent any more illegal entrances into the USA.
No one hates islam more than myself but no purpose would be served by the President demonizing that particular "religion".
It strikes me the same as calling 50's style racism "by its real name: White People" when in fact the problem was not "White People" but rather "A$$holes Who Were White".
There's a difference and it's big.
Maybe not, but I wish he would at least quit calling it a "religion of peace". There is nothing peaceful about it.
They do it with drug dealers and they should do it here too.
Ya. I'm with you there.
Yes, Cedillo wants his fellow Latinos, the illegal alien Latinos, to be above the law. Not too racist, is it?
Just a bit racist.
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