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We need to let all California Drivers with a home and some type of estate, that they need to contact their auto insurance agents to handle the future liability of this terrible new law.

None of these wonderful new drivers will be insured, few will be able to read English and none will be turned down for bad driving in Mexico or on their tests.

We bought my wife and new car, and I called our insurance agent to drop the older car that we sold and to insure the newer one.

I got the office manager this past Tuesday. She said to call back on Thursday when we sold our old car. I did and the agent was there.

After, I gave the data on my wife's new car, the office manager who had hinted about this situation on Tuesday said, "We can't tell you what we want to say re the new law, however if you ask us about you potential liability, we can advise you! (lawers at work as usual).

Basically, they see a nightmare of accidents from these new drivers. None will have insurance. That will result in us getting stuck or maybe in multiple car situations getting sued after be hit first by one of these new drivers. For example you are legally driving down a freeway and one of these new drivers hits your car and drives you into several other cars. He is killed and had no insurance. The possibility of the other car drivers/families coming after you might be very high.

To shorten the story, reduce your deductible to pay for maximum uninsured driver insurance, raise your comprehensive to help in a wreck involving more than one car, and if you own a home in California, buy an umbrella insurance package to keep the lawyers from getting you home after an accident because you had the deep pockets.

We have had an umbrella for decades, and the extra costs for the extra comphrensive was a few dollars per month.

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Schwarzenegger Vows to Fight Licenses for Illegals
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By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After weeks of accusations that he was ducking controversy, Arnold Schwarzenegger seized on one of the state's most bitterly debated issues on Thursday, vowing to fight a California law granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

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The Democratic-controlled California Senate on Wednesday approved the legislation and sent it to Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites), who has promised to sign it "in a heartbeat" while wooing Hispanic voters in an Oct. 7 recall election.

The measure has infuriated conservatives across California and Schwarzenegger -- a Republican who has called for tighter controls on the U.S. border with Mexico as he battles state Sen. Tom McClintock for the party vote -- wasted no time in weighing in.

"If Gray Davis signs this bill I will lead the fight to repeal it as governor," the Austrian-born film star, who became an American citizen in the mid-1980s, said in a statement.

"I am an immigrant," he said. "I waited for 10 years to get my American citizenship and I know first-hand how immigrants who come to this country and obey the laws have struggled to achieve their dreams. I am pro-immigrant. But we should not invite fraud or undermine law enforcement."

Supporters of the bill, who include Schwarzenegger's top Democratic rival, Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante, say the bill will make roads safer because it will require immigrants who already get behind the wheel without a license to pass a California driver's test for the first time.

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Basically, they see a nightmare of accidents from these new drivers. None will have insurance.

It's going to be like here --- expect very high liability insurance rates. If a driver from Mexico here hits you --- they never have insurance so your insurance pays if you have comprehensive --- if you cause the accident, the driver from Mexico with no insurance has the right to sue you for whatever they can get and your insurance pays. Mexicans know full well they don't need insurance --- it's not politically correct to expect them to buy it --- the cops here don't even bother giving them citations for not having it.