Posted on 09/13/2013 3:13:58 PM PDT by markomalley
The California State Assembly approved a last-minute bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive drivers’ licenses, a bill that Gov. Jerry Brown signaled he will sign into law, the Sacremento Bee reports.
“This bill will enable millions of people to get to work safely and legally,” Brown said. “Hopefully, it will send a message to Washington that immigration is long past due.”
“This is a moment, members, that years from now you’re going to look back on,” sponsor Democratic Assemblyman Luis Alejo said in his closing remarks.
Alejo hopes to prevent illegal immigrants from getting arrested and having their cars impounded when police pull them over and discover they are both unlicensed and undocumented.
A 2012 study conducted by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, however, found that unlicensed drivers are three times more likely to cause a fatal crash than licensed drivers, and that impounding vehicles is the most effective means of preventing future deaths and costly accidents. A similar AAA study conducted in 2011 found that unlicensed drivers were five times more likely to cause a fatal accident, and more likely to flee the scene of the crash.
The DMV study particularly found that the higher risks associated with unlicensed drivers had not been affected by a 1994 law prohibiting issuance of licenses to illegal immigrants — suggesting the risks are behavioral and would not be solved merely by licensing the unlicensed.
The DMV study noted that “unlicensed drivers who are ineligible to become licensed under this law are just as hazardous as drivers who are unlicensed for other reasons. If they were truly safer drivers, it would be expected that their increasing representation among unlicensed drivers after the law took effect would be associated with a concurrent reduction in the fatal crash overinvolvement rate for unlicensed drivers as an overall group, which isn’t supported by the study findings.”
California law does, in fact, stipulate that police impound cars of unlicensed drivers for 30 days if drivers could not produce a form of I.D., proof of insurance and vehicle registration. But because illegal immigrants were more likely to drive while unlicensed than U.S. citizens were, the Los Angeles Police Department decided to ignore the law in the spirit of fairness.
“It’s about fairness. It’s about equal application of the law,” LAPD police chief Charlie Beck told a Los Angeles TV station in May.
One resident of Los Angeles County, Don Rosenberg, balked at the LAPD’s decision. An unlicensed driver, who had been allowed to retrieve his car after being pulled over, killed Rosenberg’s son in a 2010 car wreck and tried to evade arrest.
“It’s more important that people who are in the country illegally get to drive than it is that people who are here get to live,” he told Fox News.
The licenses provided to illegal immigrants will feature distinguishing markings, which lawmakers say will at once prevent discrimination and satisfy unnamed federal requirements. California holds the largest population of illegal immigrants in the country and its budget deficit is a projected $16 billion.
I despise kalifornia. Everything about it. The body shops are going to love this one.
This is partially about enabling Mexicans to vote in our elections. Notice that of the ‘restrictions’ stated on these DL’s, VOTING ISN’T ONE OF THEM. HOW EFFING CONVENIENT!
You can't make this chit up.
me too but add the north east for me as well.
I feel bad for those who are stull stuck there and want out.
The state is nothing but girlie men, all about me people and illegals or those who can’t speak English even if thye have lived here for 30 years.
This was what the last recall was over.
If I was convicted with a jury that had illegal aliens I would appeal on the basis that this was not a jury of my peers and those jurors were criminals.
They’ll still be uninsured. That’s also “illegal” in CA.
insurance? we don’t need no stinkin insurance!
Up to now, one had to present an original of a birth certificate to obtain a CDL or a California picture ID.
If I own a car, I have to have proof of insurance in the car along with the registration. If one of these now-licensed illegal aliens is pulled over, or is involved in an accident, are they going to be penalized if they can't provide insurance information? I thought not.
Will Law Enforcement even be allowed to ask for ID?
It looks like there will be some Equal Protection defenses for legal drivers, if the illegals are handled differently
How does this help you CA? It does not~! And you suck for voting those people into office~!
Where do I sign? One bill Gill finally got his way. Recall these bastards tomorrow, better yet, YESTERDAY. What a mockery of law abiding peoples. I hate liberals with all my heart.
LAPD’s vehicle-impound rules violate state law, judge rules
August 12, 2013|By Joel Rubin and Kate Linthicum
The controversial rules that officers in the Los Angeles Police Department must follow when deciding whether to impound vehicles are illegal, a judge ruled Monday.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Terry Green, however, did not strike down the LAPD’s impound policy immediately. In coming weeks, the judge will decide whether he should put his own ruling aside until an appeals court hears the case. Until then, the LAPD’s policy will remain in effect, said Michael Kaufman, an attorney for the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Lberties Union, which was part of a coalition defending the impound rules.
“We are pleased with the ruling today,” said Tyler Izen, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
Kaufman said the ACLU and other groups in the coalition would appeal Green’s decision. Attorneys for the city could not be reached immediately for comment on whether the city would join them.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/12/local/la-me-ln-lapd-impound-20130812
Me too!
Islamicists have already been using Hispanics to get into the U.S. They are hooking up with Hispanics on both sides of the border and getting themselves and their children into the U.S., into the schools and community colleges so to seem to “fit in” to communities. Whoever pushed this bill in the California legislature must know this. The others who voted for this are useful idiots. All part of hope and change. Hope and change writ large.
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