OK-Uninsured Illegal Immigrant Drivers

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Uninsured Illegal Immigrant Drivers
Reported by: Emily Sinovic
Email: esinovic@fox23.com
Last Update: 11/05 11:02 pm

Illegal immigrants are driving without insurance, and it could cost you thousands of dollars. A Sapulpa mother was driving two children in the backseat, when another car slammed into her car, totalling her car. The other driver was an illegal immigrant. He didn't have insurance, he was drunk, and he had done this before.

Paige Harp had her car for only three weeks before the accident. She had already started planning the new life she have with the ability to apply for jobs and drive to work.

Harp said, "I was so excited the first week I had my car. I probably filled out 20 applications to different places. I got a call right after the wreck for my first job interview."

Paige is stuck with a bill for more than $1,500 that she doesn't have. She had insurance, but her insurance did not cover the uninsured motorists.

The man who hit her was an illegal immigrant, driving drunk without insurance.

Sapulpa Police Officer Todd Lawrence was at the scene of Paige Harp's accident. Lawrence said he recognized the illegal immigrant. Lawrence said he arrested the same man earlier this year. Officer Lawrence said, "I had worked a collision involving him back in January and it was a hit and run collision. He had been drinking then. He had also been arrested for DUI on that particular occasion."

The same illegal immigrant had given Officer Lawrence different names at each arrest. Officer Lawrence said he quickly realized this man was the same person he arrested for a DUI before. Lawrence went back and realized the same man had given different names during a number of other arrests dating back to 2005.

Lawrence said, had he not recognized the man as being the same person who he previously arrested, the illegal immigrant may not have been charged with a felony because it would have been a first time offense.

Lawrence said, "Depending on what name he had given that time, he would not have been charged with a felony DUI probably would have been a misdemeanor and probably went to the same city jail."

The seriousness of the charge makes a difference when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides who to deport.

Officer Lawrence said every time Sapulpa PD arrests someone believed to be an illegal immigrant, the police department reports that person to ICE. ICE then decides whether to deport that person.

Lawrence said ICE was notified in January when Lawrence arrested the illegal immigrant for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. The illegal immigrant was not deported.

When Officer Lawrence was asked if he assumed the illegal immigrant would have been deported after the first DUI arrest, Lawrence responded, "I had hoped and didn't really assume. The system sometimes works and sometimes does not. We did our part by notifying ICE which is customs and immigration. They did not put a hold on him. He was able to plead guilty, pay his bond and was released."

A spokesperson for ICE told FOX23, "If ICE has resources to deport [illegal immigrants] then ICE will deport them. ICE will prioritize resources to go after more serious offenders."

ICE said it did not have record of notification from Sapulpa PD after the January, but said the illegal immigrant is in the process of being deported now.

Paige Harp says that is something that should have been done much sooner.

Harp said, "I don't understand it at all. He should've been gone before this."

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Uninsured-Illegal-Immigrant-Drivers/MrII2m6qAEGSeFP-2gU1Aw.cspx

VIDEO AT THE LINK,DWI HAS A NEW MEANING , DRIVING ( DRUNK WITHOUT INSURANCE ) A REPEAT OFFENDER , ...
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81000 Americans killed by illegal aliens since 9-11

ReggieMay · ALIPAC Hero Elite Joined: Jan 18, 2008 Posts: 2048

My insurance company has told me that if I move to an area with few illegals my auto insurance premium would be cut in half.
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FedUpinFarmersBranch · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:08 am Post subject:

ReggieMay said:

"My insurance company has told me that if I move to an area with few illegals my auto insurance premium would be cut in half".

You know ReggieMay that explains my high insurance premiums ...HMMM
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81000 Americans killed by illegal aliens since 9-11

Ratbstard · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:

You didn't think we just paid higher insurance premiums for healthcare?
Evil or Very Mad

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kniggit · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

They had a checkpoint here last weekend in a heavily hispanic area, they didn't give specifics but they arrested 26 people and impounded 39 cars.
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HippieChick · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:31 am Post subject:

As someone who has connection to the insurance industry, I can tell you that illegal aliens in this country costs you a LOT in regards to insurance. You have to pay to cover the costs for those that drive without licenses, without insurance, and who register one car to one name yet let a "house full" of others drive that same car. Many illegals also (I know this from the position I am in) use only one last name when getting a license or registering a car. For example, if their name is Jose Ruiz Vasquez, he will use only Jose Ruiz to get a license. If he gets a ticket, gets in trouble, or something like that, he'll go to another state and get a license with Jose Vasquez on it, essentially wiping his slate clean. I know this from experience. Until this country starts requiring people to have either a valid social security number and/or a Tax I.D. number in order to register a car and get a license, we will continue to shell out the costs to cover what they don't pay or avoid paying by fleeing. I have written to our elected officials and begged for this solution, only to hear nothing back. How difficult would it be, to say IF you want a drivers license and if you want to register a car, you must present a valid social or Tax I.D.? That way it would be so much easier to track someone down when involved in an accident. Doesn't make sense to me.
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Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"........

jean · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

NoBueno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject:

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jean · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:29 am Post subject:

Added to Homepage:
http://www.alipac.us/article-4668--0-0.html
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Why aren't our immigration laws enforced?

USPatriot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject:

Congress tried to give ICE more money a few months ago for interior enforcement but ICE said they did not need the money. Sad

Now they say they have "Limited Resouces" and they have to spend it on Criminal IA's. Sad

What a bunch of BS.This is another example of Defacto Amnesty,which endangers US Citizens,forced on us by the Obama Admin. Evil or Very Mad

laughinglynx · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject:

When I moved to Arizona from California my car insurance went up 60% even though I was only using it for personal use. In California I had it listed as a business use car.

I have been hit three times by Hispanics with no insurance.

I could go on and on about how much they have cost me in other areas, including being physically threatened by a gang of Hispanic women where I worked, but I will just give this example because we are talking about car insurance.

These people are costing us a ton of money and, personally, even with Congress having their heads up their butts, I don't think we would be in the financial mess we are in as a nation had we enforced ALL of our immigration laws. It's all snow balling on us right now and the very people that were voted in to protect us are selling us down the river for votes.

Time to TOTALLY turn the tables on Congress and vote every single one of the jerks out. Even if you think you like them.

cclarkkent · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject:

Insurance, healthcare, drugs, crime. Just look at the numbers and what its costing us Americas to support these illegal clowns. Billions.

pjwishes · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject:

About being ticketed for not speaking English: It's essential for driving

I`m so fed up, I can`t stand it any more. I found this article yesterday and it makes me boil! 30 years in the good ole USA and still doesn`t speak ENGLISH, OH PLEASE. is she a friggin liar or what! Ya know a lot of them don`t want you to know that they do speak English, and if they are caught lieing about it throw them in jail. And to top it off she is sueing. This may be a little off the subject but it worth reading. THEY DO NOT COME HERE WITH THE GOOD INTENTIONS TO ASSIMILATE INTO OUR WAY OF LIFE AND OR CULTURE and become an a AMERICAN! ITS THE FREE STUFF they get! And I for one do NOT want to support them in no friggin way!. In order to drive, don`t you have to speak English????? I will never never speak that language as long as I live! I`m so angry what has happened to our country I want to explode! Mad

The so called leaders ingnore the American Peoples! Theres quite a few comments also.

http://tinyurl.com/yeb4nt2
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vortex · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject:

I understand totally, pj, but so many states, FL I know, give driving tests for both personal and commercial licenses in English and Spanish. So much for assimilation. Don't want to go to get a license, no problemo, just get in the car and drive.
And these fine, upstanding folks that have broken law by being here illegally should definitely be given amnesty. Not if I have anything to say about it, and I am saying alot already! This garbage needs to be cut off before it is even put on a schedule to be introduced in Congress, no matter what Mr. Gutierrez thinks.
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Immigration is not a right that belongs to anybody and everybody who wants to come here. It is a privilege we Americans alone decide to convey. - Patrick J. Buchanan