Posted on 08/24/2008 11:34:57 AM PDT by AuntB
IRVING, Texas -- Some members of the Hispanic community are calling for a boycott of Frank Parra dealerships after a broken car deal led to an undocumented immigrant's arrest.
Frank Parra Dodge insists it is the victim of an immigration smear campaign brought on by community activist Carlos Quintanilla. Quintanilla is calling for a boycott after the sales staff at the dealership had customer Oscar Urbina arrested.
Urbina admitted to being in the country illegally and using a fake Social Security number to buy a truck when the finance company flagged the deal.
"That's when we said, 'Just give us our truck and leave the store,'" Joe Fernandez of Frank Parra Dodge said.
Instead, the dealership's salesmen said Urbina locked himself inside the truck, and that is when they called police.
"The last thing we want is to have a customer arrested. We just wanted our truck back," Fernandez said.
However, Urbina said the dealership actually offered to find a new finance company that would accept the fake Social Security number if he agreed to pay a higher percentage rate and put more money down.
"It's saying, 'If you don't agree with us, we will call the police and report you,'" Quintanilla said.
The Parra dealership denies that that offer took place.
Urbina said he was upset because he has purchased numerous cars at the dealership before and there was never a problem.
However, when asked if that fact makes it appropriate for him to use a fake Social Security number, Urbina seemed to be at a loss for words.
"However, when asked if that fact makes it appropriate for him to use a fake Social Security number, Urbina seemed to be at a loss for words. "
Sheesh.
I thought they only bought Chevy .
They deserve to go bankrupt.
“Why a company would ever have lent money to someone not legally in the country and, basically, untraceable, is beyond me.
They deserve to go bankrupt. “
Those are the same outfits that the government is bailing out with our tax dollars. Yes, in an actual free market system, they would go broke.
If the truck hadn't been on the lot at the time it would have just been repoed later.
As for the crimmigrant — absolutely deport him!
I am so freaking sick and tired of the d@mn MSM massaging the language in these emotion-based BS articles.
A CRIMINAL IS A CRIMINAL IS A CRIMINAL.
They broke federal law the instant they broke into our Republic, and they should be deported back to their homelands. The Japanese government deports their illegal aliens, why can't our government do the same????
Sheesh!!!!!!!!
So you’re taking the word of the illegal over the word of the dealer? Could you be bothered to read the next line, perhaps?
“The Parra dealership denies that that offer took place.”
liberals
Knowing the way car dealerships work, yes.
More doublespeak.
“Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a rapist an undocumented boyfriend.”
I saw that. Did you notice the dealership disputed that?
If they had offered, why didn’t the alien take them up on it?
But then NOTHING seems good enough for them, does it?
I find it most interesting that illegal citizens (Thanks to Motor/Voter most can vote) that file exempt on income taxes and FICA have plenty of money to by new cars while most legals are taxed so hard that a new car is no more than a pipe-dream for them.
Yes, he says he had bought other trucks there earlier, no problemo. But this time the lending company refused.
The obvious explanation is that lending companies carelessly made numerous bad loans, got into serious trouble, and now are much more careful not to make dubious loans.
This guy was a real jerk to lock himself in the truck. If he had just quietly left he would have been OK.
“This guy was a real jerk to lock himself in the truck. If he had just quietly left he would have been OK.”
But, but....they’re ALL hiding in the shadows, don’t ya know?
That's because they changed the laws. SS numbers are now on a federal database to make sure they are ligit
No financing, no vehicle, no problem
Here in Florida, it actually caused many illegals to LEAVE..............................to Canada and back to their turd world countries
I'll take that with a huge grain of salt.
It’s like the old Johnny Carson “Tea Time Movie” routine:
Got no job, we don’t care.
Got no credit, we don’t care.
You’re illegal, we don’t care.
You don’t expect to pay us, THAT’S when we care!
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