A Former California Highway Patrol Officer Says The LAPD’s Moratorium On Impounding Illegal Aliens’ Cars Will Anger Many

From: Dave Hollenbeck (e-mail him)
http://www.vdare.com/

According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, the LAPD will no longer impound vehicles owned by illegal aliens until the city attorney's office provides a final legal assessment of a 2005 decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals involving an Oregon impound case. [LA Police To Stop Impounding Cars of Unlicensed Drivers," By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2007]

Pro-illegal alien lobbyists are thrilled, of course.

Here are the winners and the losers in this travesty.

Winners:
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who won’t have to explain to illegals why his police department took their car.

Insurance companies, who will simply pass on the cost of collisions to the insured. Plus, every policy has a clause that says: "This policy is null and void unless the vehicle is operated by a licensed driver".

Losers:
The police officers who work the street and will get blamed when an Illegal alien hits a citizen’s car.

Citizens who will pay higher insurance rates and endured the hassle and time spent to get a driver's license.

Citizens who will be hit by driving-skill-challenged Illegals, have their car totaled, have medical bills only to be told that the other driver doesn’t have insurance.

Tow companies whose business it is to go out and tow vehicles that the unlicensed aliens were driving.

Hollenbeck worked for more than thirty years as a California Highway Patrol officer in southern California. He is retired and lives in Arizona. Read his previous letter about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid here and about how illegal aliens get away with it here. To read Hollenbeck’s blog, Desert Exile, click here.