What’s “driving” this issue is that now the illegals with licenses cannot pay the fines. The push is to expose the unfairness of the fines on the poor illegals and to begin a reassessment/reduction based on that.
Exactly: @latstevelopezIs $197 too much to pay for crossing the street?:
Hundreds of readers responded to my column about 22-year-old Glendale Community College student-athlete Eduardo Lopez, who was on his way to school when he got smacked with a $197 ticket for entering a crosswalk after the flashing countdown had begun...
...a recent report by several civil rights groups that outlined how citations push people deeper into poverty and result in suspended licenses...