http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/02/
copy/IMMIGRANT_FEARS.ART_ART_11-02-09_B1_MQFHVG6.html?sid=101
Auto registration checks scaring immigrants
Monday, November 2, 2009 3:12 AM
News that the state will cancel the car registrations of possibly thousands
of undocumented immigrants has caused panic and created rumors among those
living in central Ohio.
Before Aug. 24, a loophole in the state Bureau of Motor Vehicle's policy
allowed illegal immigrants to register cars in their names by using a
power-of-attorney form, even if they didn't have a driver's license.
The Ohio Department of Public Safety closed the loophole after delaying a
crackdown on possibly fraudulent registrations for more than a year.
Illegal immigrants, like many other central Ohio residents, rely on their
cars to get to and from work and school, she said. "It's not like in New
York or Los Angeles where a bus is coming every four or five minutes. There
isn't other transportation."
Rumors of immigration checkpoints on ...t and Cleveland avenues and
raids at Easton Town Center and Polaris mall last month kept many
undocumented immigrants home from work, Alachan said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn't been at any of those locations,
said Corey A. Price, ICE assistant field office director. "ICE has never
done checkpoints in Ohio. Our focus is criminals. If they are criminals, we
are going to do everything we can to find them, detain them and remove
them."
Some illegal immigrants are making plans to stop driving altogether;
carpools are popping up, Perales-Lang said.
Others find it easier to abandon their lives here and head home.
"They're saying, 'They don't want us. There's not a lot of work. I'm going
to leave.'
(snip)
------------------
How about that ICE official Corey Price who says they only go after
illegals who are criminals as if that makes any sense!!!! That boy is
taking bribes and is a criminal himself. |