On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:27 -0600, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS" wrote:
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>http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/02/
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>Auto registration checks scaring immigrants
>Monday, November 2, 2009 3:12 AM
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>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.
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>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.
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>The Ohio Department of Public Safety closed the loophole after delaying a
>crackdown on possibly fraudulent registrations for more than a year.
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>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."
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>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.
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>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."
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> Some illegal immigrants are making plans to stop driving altogether;
>carpools are popping up, Perales-Lang said.
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>Others find it easier to abandon their lives here and head home.
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>"They're saying, 'They don't want us. There's not a lot of work. I'm going
>to leave.'
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>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.
That's a good policy. |