Posted on 12/31/2013 5:23:37 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Immigrant rights activists and upset family members gathered Sunday in Baldwin Park to express outrage over the arrests of 37 people during an overnight sobriety and drivers license checkpoints.
Dozens of demonstrators, some carrying signs with slogans such as driving is not a crime, demanded answers from Baldwin Park police over what they called a round-up of undocumented immigrants.
But police said the arrests were the result of recent changes in policies regarding what types of identification the court will accept when police issue a misdemeanor citation, such as one for driving without a license. And officials maintained that such checkpoints are a valuable took in combatting intoxicated driving.Tearful children were taken into the custody of county officials as parents were arrested during the checkpoint, said Debbie Leance, a volunteer with Inland Empire Rapid Response Network. The majority, she said, were arrested only for driving without a license. One video shot by the demonstrators depicted a girl crying while explaining that the police were taking her mother away, Because shes not from here.
Its such a large roundup. Its unprecedented, Leance said. Its so unnecessary. That seems like a federal agenda.
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No sympathy here drive drunk get arrested (legal or not). They want to treat the US like Mexico where no body pays attention to these sorts of offenses and drunkenness is what people engage in to relieve the pain and boredom of their lives
Send the invaders home.
Start checking green cards.
Checkpoints are wrong. Slowing you to a stop is one thing, but if there’s no probable cause, they have no right to demand papers. IMHO. It works both ways.
Shes never been arrested. Not even a ticket, he said.
Imagine that. In Baldwin Park, too.
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/thousand_words/baldwin_park_2005may14.html
While I have no real sympathy for the illegals that were taken into custody, I also do not support the utilization of checkpoints. Want to pull me over based on any laws I may have broken or if I’m driving like I’m drunk then ok. Pulling everyone over without cause and submitting them to sobriety testing is not ok. It’s an infringement on my rights.
I do not support driving under the influence at all but these checkpoints are not the way to battle driver impairment. Just another excuse to stop you for no reason and look for reasons to generate revenue.
The tax money used to fund these fishing expeditions would be better spent identifying, targeting, and deporting those that should not be here.
And spot on about checkpoints. Checkpoints aren't compatible with freedom.
/johnny
Yeah I don’t even drink and I don’t want to be hassled when I drive.
“Sobriety check points” are a blatant violation of the 4th amendment. But in my view the Constitution does not apply to people who do not legally belong here. It was intended to protect citizens and legal residents; not trespassers.
GTFOOMC
Drunk drivers have no excuse. Illegals should be deported before they sober up.
I'm so sick of these parasites.
I know where they all are, too. Working for Brickman Lawn services in Saint Louis...
I can foresee signs in the near future proclaiming that "Criminal activities are not a crime unless you happen to be a White, working taxpayer - then, your very existence is a crime."
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