Posted on 03/18/2024 4:26:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Behind a West Loop migrant shelter, dozens of cars sit without license plates.
Several of their owners stand nearby, acknowledging they lack licenses to drive them.
But they increasingly have been driving, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of police data that suggests sharp rises in arrests among migrants for breaking traffic laws. The analysis found many are now being detained in Chicago each week for driving- or vehicle-related infractions, roughly at five times the rate from last summer.
“Start where you are. Do what you can. Use what you have,” said Jose Fernandez, 30, from Trujillo, Venezuela.
It’s difficult to know for sure how many migrants are charged or ticketed because police don’t keep precise data on when they arrest asylum-seekers. But what is often available in arrest data — the arrestees’ country of birth — suggests that driving- and vehicle-related offenses have become the primary reason migrants end up being detained by officers.
The Tribune focused on arrestees born in Venezuela because census figures show few native Venezuelans lived in Chicago before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants north 18 months ago, and city officials say that Venezuelans make up the majority of the more than 37,000 migrants who’ve arrived since.
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Stop feeding, sheltering and welfare for all illegals and homeless. Make life miserable on them. The problem will evaporate once we take harsh steps to detour their existence as vagrants and a drag on society.
Probably stole the cars...
Thats why they took the license plates off them,,
You can’t buy a car without a license unless through a private sale. You can’t register a car without a license unless you get someone else to do it. All of these things are against the law. As they break it once again. Insurance needs a license, unless you get some one to get it for you. They should go to jail also.
I was in Houston last week. I heard a banging noise behind me as a white Audi changed lanes very close behind me. I thought he brushed my bumper. As he passed I noticed he had no license plate so I didn’t even bother to stop and check my truck for another 100 miles.
the leftist media shilling for driver licenses for non citizens.
You do understand they buy cars the same way they buy anything illegal. They find people to sell them to them black market.
They do not care about the legalities because they are illegally here.
They just get a car and drive. If a fairly minor accident happens, many just drive off and you are left holding the bag.
Cops are usually told to let them skate. The more illegals and uninsured drivers there are in the US, the higher everyone who is a legal citizen’s rates will rise.
Where do they get the money to buy cars?
Yep, they learn quick!
all they have to do is come to Minnesota.
our dips*** democrats will give them a drivers license..
One that a dishonest illegal could use to vote with even.
Then cheapest way of handling these illegal immigrants is to fly them back to their homeland (we pay) give them a nice check to get resettled.
Expensive? My guess is it’s cheaper than for us to continue paying for their stay in America, and it’s humane.
You are so right. The democrats think they’re going to control them. Their arrogance will hurt all of us.
Where is the Republican Party in Illinois? Probably collaborating with their democrat buddies.
No, they’re “Newcomers”...
Non citizens are not protected by the constitution.
You’re right. But they ARE protected by the democrats.
The only problem I have with what you’re proposing is that they will be then looking to Trump and the republicans for handouts and freebies. They have no intention of leaving. They need to be deported immediately.
Why be “humane” with these criminals who are murdering, raping and committing all other sorts of crimes. Being “humane” has brought us to the situation we are in.
Looks like South Texas has arrived in Chicago.
You forgot drunk. So many traffic fatalities involve illegals that are drunk as well as unlicensed and of course, uninsured.
local LEO pulls over Hatian without drivers license, confiscates vehicle.
“Why be “humane” with these criminals”
Because too many Americans view the taking in of the foreigners as an obligation we have to global humanity.
I view a wall the same way: the most humane way to allow in only the foreigners in that meet our requirements.
I can remember when having UNINSURED MOTORIST coverage cost me $1 more a month.
NOW-—IT IS ALMOST 40% of my premiums.
NO ACCIDENTS EVER
Have been driving over 66 years. Have driven over a million miles. Have a 1976 1 ton truck I put OVER 250,000 miles on -—and ONLY new car I ever bought—I put OVER 444,000 on in 30 years. Wish I still had it.
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