Mexico Is Due South

Dallas just passed a city ordinance which impounds autos and fines drivers with no insurance. Many Dallas illegals are now walking, hopefully back to Mexico

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From Sam D's blog

This is true, I checked with the City of Dallas. samD

Get ‘em off the road WITHOUT making ‘em show proof of nationality. Wonder how the ACLU or the Justice Department will get around this one.

Dallas TX's solution to Illegals...Brilliant!!!!

Recently, in the City of Dallas, Texas, they passed an ordinance that if you are pulled over by law enforcement and not able to provide proof of insurance, your car will be towed right away. Afterwards, to retrieve your car after being impounded, you must require proof of insurance to have your car released. This has made it easy for the City of Dallas to remove uninsured cars that are typically driven by mostly illegals. Shortly after "No insurance" ordinance was passed, the Dallas impound lots began to fill up quickly and was full after nine days. Most of the impounded cars were driven by illegals. Not only must you provide proof of insurance to have your car released, you have to pay for the cost of the tow, a $350 fine, and charged $20 for every day their car is kept in the lot. I would suggest other cities across the nation to follow what Dallas , Texas is doing. Not only is it getting uninsured drivers off the road, but it is taking away vehicles driven by illegals that have no insurance.

Brings a tear to my eyes...



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And This.........

Immigrant drivers face an uncertain road
Those in U.S. under a special status find their commercial driver's licenses canceled under a newly enforced law

By SUSAN CARROLL
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jan. 11, 2011, 11:25PM

Salvador Gutierrez, a native of El Salvador, said he has built a modest but prosperous life in Houston with the money he earns driving his Kenworth 18-wheel truck. But his livelihood is threatened now, he said, by a recent decision by the Department of Public Safety to revoke the commercial driver's licenses of immigrants who lack certain immigration documents -- even though they are legally authorized to work in the United States. The controversy centers on a change to the Texas Transportation Code enacted in 2007, but only recent enforced by DPS, said Bianca Santorini, an attorney with Houston's America for All, an immigrant advocacy organization. The change jeopardizes the commercial licenses of thousands of immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, a kind of temporary reprieve from deportation generally reserved for countries ravaged by natural disasters or destabilized by war, Santorini said.

Salvador Gutierrez, a native of El Salvador, said he has built a modest but prosperous life in Pasadena with the money he earns driving his Kenworth 18-wheel truck.

But his livelihood is threatened now, he said, by a recent decision by the Department of Public Safety to cancel the commercial driver's licenses of immigrants who lack certain immigration and travel documents — even though they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

The controversy centers on a change to the Texas Transportation Code enacted in 2007 but only recently enforced by DPS, said Bianca Santorini, an attorney with Houston's America for All, an immigrant advocacy organization. Santorini said the change jeopardizes the commercial licenses of immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status, or TPS — a kind of temporary reprieve from deportation for people from countries ravaged by natural disasters or destabilized by war.

DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said a change in the law in 2007 required all applicants for commercial driver licenses who are not U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, or refugees to obtain a special, "non-resident" commercial driver license.

By law, applicants for the non-resident CDLs must present three specific documents — a passport, visa and an I-94 form issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers upon arrival to the U.S., Mange said. But until recently, DPS did not enforce that specific paperwork requirement.

Mange estimated that about 1,800 "non-resident" CDLs have been issued in error since Sept. 1, 2007. Mange said everyone issued "non-resident" commercial licenses will be required to show DPS the specific documents — the passport, visa and I-94 form — during the next 90 days, or their licenses will be canceled.

But recipients of TPS are not issued those specific documents by the U.S. government, even though they are given paperwork showing they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Powerless to change
Mange conceded that TPS recipients are not issued the documents required by the code but said DPS is powerless to change it.

"The Legislature would have to change that," Mange said. "It's a law, not a rule.

"Our hands are tied right now," she said.

Asked why DPS started enforcing the 2007 code recently, Mange said: "I'm not sure what changed."

For many of the truck drivers, including Gutierrez, losing their commercial licenses could mean losing their jobs.

"It's their whole livelihood," Santorini said. "They cannot work. Some of them own their own trucks or their own trucking companies.

"The most unfair thing is that there was no notice," she said. "They find out when they're driving that their licenses have been suspended."

Santorini said DPS could redraft the Texas Transportation Code to expand the list of acceptable documents to those issued to people with Temporary Protected Status. She said action by the Legislature is not required.

While the state and immigrant advocacy organizations try to figure out a resolution, truckers like Gutierrez said they are worried about losing their jobs.

Gutierrez was granted temporary legal status in 2002 after an earthquake hammered his native El Salvador. He was shocked to learn during a December traffic stop that the state had canceled his commercial driver's license in March. He said he never got a letter warning him that there was a problem.

"I said, 'No, I can't believe it,' " the 36-year-old said.

'A mess for me'
Gutierrez, who has lived in the U.S. for 22 years and has three U.S.-born children, said that if he's unable to resolve the license cancellation, he's not sure what he will do.

"It will be a mess for me. I have my house payment, my truck payment, my car payment, and my wife and my children to support. It's going to affect me a lot. I know that," he said. "And it's not just me. It's thousands of people. We are all in the same boat."