Bill would protect illegal immigrant drivers' cars from impound

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This is wrong on so many levels... we should be deporting instead of supporting.

It's BS like this that will sway/convince the majority of Americans to accept crap like the "Real ID" act.

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/Stories/0,1413,136~32730~2857662,00.html

"SACRAMENTO - Stymied in his efforts to allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has found a backdoor way around the ban with a proposal that would exempt undocumented motorists from vehicle-impound laws.

Under current law, for 30 days police can impound the vehicle of a motorist caught driving without a valid license. Cedillo's bill would exempt those who don't have a license simply because they are not legal U.S. residents.

Cedillo said law enforcement resources should be dedicated to going after serious driving offenses such as drunk driving, not licensing violations by undocumented immigrants.

"That's what the money should be spent for, not towing people's cars who are taking their citizen kids to school, church or the supermarket," Cedillo said in an interview. "It's just a bad policy and it doesn't make sense."

Unlike his measure that would make illegal immigrants eligible for licenses, which was repealed under pressure from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cedillo has pushed for his new bill quietly.

In fact, one of the strongest opponents to Cedillo's driver's-license measure, Mike Spence, president of the conservative group California Republican Assembly, was unaware of the latest bill until contacted by the Daily News".

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1. Yet if the federal ID Bill goes through, this law won't matter.

Guess we are gonna get screwed one way or the other, eh?

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4. It would suck big time if the ID Act passes.

It's the idiocy of this sort of legislation that perpetuates and convinces people that we need this sort of thing.

Even if a National ID plan wasn't a factor, the proposed "no impound" bill is just plain wrong.

[bluestateguy]

2. They should be subject to the same laws as everybody else

No special exemptions for people just because they are not US citizens.

[LeftyMom]

3. Just give people lisences

Then they can get insurance and my uninsured motorist coverage won't cost so freakin' much. Really, the withholding of liscences is punitive and petty and doesn't stop anyone from driving, it just encourages illegal immigrants to buy rust buckets so they don't lose much if it's impounded and to flee the scene of accidents or not to report them.

Just tag them with a little flad (like graduated liscences for minors) or use a different background color so people know it't not a valid ID for employment (although if they're here and driving they've probably already got a job.)