[oldbrowser]

The part that is not mentioned in this article is that when the illegal's vehicle is impounded for driving without a license, the fee for getting the vehicle back is about $1,500. If they can't pay the vehicle is sold at auction. However it works out the tow company and the police split the fee.

The LA times did an expose last year and I seem to recall that there may have been something unseemly about the way the money was divided.

[Blue Ink]

“the fee for getting the vehicle back is about $1,500. If they can’t pay the vehicle is sold at auction.”

So what? If you don’t have a license, you shouldn’t get the vehicle back — at any price. This is one of the very few tools still at the disposal of law enforcement to control the behavior of illegal immigrants.

What’s crazy is you don’t even have to have a driver’s license to purchase a vehicle in CA — the car dealer’s lobby saw to that. And you don’t have to have a license to register the vehicle — CA isn’t going to say no to taking your money to register the vehicle, even though you can’t drive it legally.

This example happened right in front of my house: guy in an unmarked truck with no ID wanted access to my next-door neighbor’s cable connection. When my neighbor told him no, the guy came and knocked on our door. My neighbor called the cops.

The police came and conducted an interview with the guy in Spanish. We asked for a summary of their conversation: the guy had no Time Warner ID because he was an “independent contractor.” He had no ID of any kind and certainly not a driver’s license. And the cops just let him DRIVE AWAY.

We were four outraged citizens, let me tell you. How do you just let someone with NO DRIVER’S LICENSE drive off? The cops just smiled indulgently at us. “Oh, he seemed like an okay guy. He said he had never been arrested.” HE CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH. HE’S OBVIOUSLY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN. “ We’re not in the immigration enforcement business.” HE HAD NO DRIVERS LICENSE. “Illegals can’t get licenses. And we didn’t see him commit any traffic violations.”

So that’s what it’s like on the front lines in the occupied territory of California. There are two sets of laws, one for citizens and one for the colonizers. Do you know what would happen to me if I got pulled over with no driver’s license? And not just not having it on me — no driver’s license ISSUED to me. I’d be in big trouble — because I’m a citizen.

So if DUI checkpoints can get a handful of these illegals and their cars off the roads — if they can make life difficult enough that maybe some of them will get the hell out of my country, I’m all for them.