Lookout wrote in
news:5ah0f5l4bhjimgasi817ss2doabs7a8edb@4ax.com:
> 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/ copy/IMMIGRANT_FEARS.ART_ART_11-02-09_B1_MQFHVG6.html?sid=101
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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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>>(snip)
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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.
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> That's a good policy.
>
It's more than good - it's common sense. The previous law was moronic.
How can you let people register cars when they don't have a DL? As i've
been saying for years, if we take away the benefits and privileges from
illegals, they will self-deport.
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