Posted on 07/09/2010 7:05:24 AM PDT by laotzu
San Antonio - Pilar Esquivel admits she was in the wrong when she couldn't present her driver's license to a police officer during a traffic stop ... and that he had every right to issue her a ticket.
However, Esquivel says when a Shavano Park police officer then threatened her with immediate deportation when she could not show proof of legal residency... that's when she felt what's happening in Arizona could happen here.
"After (being pulled over) for the violation and when I could not prove my proper papers, it then went more towards illegal immigration; that I could not prove that I was legally here."
Her husband Edward says they had just finished moving and that her driver's license and residency documents were at their Dominion home.
They say the officer gave them ten minutes to produce her legal residency papers ... or they claim he threatened to arrest her and begin deportation proceedings.
"The officer said that she would be deported; that she would be put into a waiting cell and that she would be deported in three days," quotes Edward Esquivel, what he attests the officer told him.
He says it was impossible to get home to find the papers to provide them so quickly.
Shavano Park City manager Manuel Longoria says they're investigating to ensure against possible harrassment. He says all officers are trained in strict protocol to make sure they are administering the law --- no more and no less.
The Esquivels say they don't want trouble ... they just want to make sure that other legal immigrants who have papers and who want to cooperate with the law ... aren't unfairly targeted.
Ping!
Yes, but the DMV has the photo on file. Why can’t cops access that photo during a routine check? And usually a person is driving a vehicle associated with the same address as what is on his/her license.>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’m sure in some jurisdictions they can. It depends on whether the police car has a display that can display an image well. I think by now all states have digitized their driver’s licenses. It was a federal law I think. The digitized photo can be transmitted though perhaps it takes longer than just the text on the license
Who wants to bet whether this woman and her husband are RAT operatives?
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