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Behind the wheel without a license: Migrants buying cars to make a life in Chicago
Chicago Tribune via MSN ^ | March 18, 2024 | Nell Salzman and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; illegalimmigration; migrants
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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.


21 posted on 03/18/2024 5:25:26 AM PDT by Slingwing
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To: crusty old prospector

Probably stole the cars...

Thats why they took the license plates off them,,


22 posted on 03/18/2024 5:26:18 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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.


23 posted on 03/18/2024 5:26:28 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: dforest

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.


24 posted on 03/18/2024 5:30:58 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

the leftist media shilling for driver licenses for non citizens.


25 posted on 03/18/2024 5:43:40 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: lucky american

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.


26 posted on 03/18/2024 5:44:41 AM PDT by dforest
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Where do they get the money to buy cars?


27 posted on 03/18/2024 5:56:24 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Brian Griffin

Yep, they learn quick!


28 posted on 03/18/2024 6:01:04 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: momincombatboots

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.


29 posted on 03/18/2024 6:01:51 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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.


30 posted on 03/18/2024 6:09:03 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Lockbox

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.


31 posted on 03/18/2024 6:13:10 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Tennessee Nana

No, they’re “Newcomers”...


32 posted on 03/18/2024 6:13:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: momincombatboots

Non citizens are not protected by the constitution.

You’re right. But they ARE protected by the democrats.


33 posted on 03/18/2024 6:14:46 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


34 posted on 03/18/2024 6:19:04 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: cymbeline

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.


35 posted on 03/18/2024 6:31:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Looks like South Texas has arrived in Chicago.


36 posted on 03/18/2024 6:39:41 AM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: MeanWestTexan
They drive like morons. Very aggressive and no clue how the rules of the road work.

You forgot drunk. So many traffic fatalities involve illegals that are drunk as well as unlicensed and of course, uninsured.

37 posted on 03/18/2024 6:54:52 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

local LEO pulls over Hatian without drivers license, confiscates vehicle.


38 posted on 03/18/2024 7:12:40 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: hal ogen

“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.


39 posted on 03/18/2024 7:47:53 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: moovova

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.


40 posted on 03/18/2024 8:48:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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