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L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Vows to End 30-Day Impounds For Unlicensed Drivers (a.k.a. Illegal Immigrants)

laweekly.com
By Dennis Romero
Mon., Nov. 21 2011 at 4:38 PM

Following an unflattering report on vehicle impounds by the LAPD, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he would stop L.A. cops' 30-day impounds for first-time offenders who have been pulled over and found to lack drivers licenses.

For the most part around here those people are called illegal immigrants. And they provide a certain glue (dish washing, kid-watching, car-washing, lawn-mowing, nail-hammering, etc.) to our society, but they can't legally drive here.

The mayor's announcement took the department by surprise, we were told, and L.A. police union president Paul M. Weber said the policy "puts politics above public safety."

The mayor made the announcement today during ...

... an interview with La Opinion newspaper for a piece that apparently has yet to be published.

The aforementioned impound study by Cynthia Anderson-Barker for the Southern California Immigration Coalition and the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild alleges racial profiling during traffic stops that end with illegal immigrants losing their cars for 30 days.

State law mandates that unlicensed drivers see a 30-day impound, and studies indicate that the unlicensed are more likely to get into traffic accidents.

However immigrants' rights advocates allege departments like the LAPD have used the tows to basically take folks' cars, particularly in illegal-immigrant-heavy communities.

The Lawyers Guild (PDF) wants the LAPD to adopt a Maywood-like policy:

Police officers shall refrain from impounding vehicles of unlicensed drivers, if the vehicle is already securely located in a legal parking space OR a licensed driver is available to remove the vehicle to a safe place.

The LAPD already enacted a policy that would allow friends or relatives of an unlicensed operator to drive a car home (and keep it safe from the hooks of a two truck) if they're caught without a license at a DUI checkpoint.

The officers' union known as the L.A. Police Protective League is way unhappy with Villaraigosa's announcement, which is seen as a way to placate Latino and immigrant constituents. Weber:

It is a sad day for Los Angeles residents because the Mayor is directing the LAPD to purposely not enforce a state law designed to protect public safety ...

First, an unlicensed driver willing to ignore the law is, at least temporarily, less likely to further violate this law because he or she will not have access to the impounded vehicle. Second, the cost and inconvenience of recovering an impounded vehicle discourages people without licenses from driving. That is precisely why the state legislature enacted the 30-day hold law.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011 ... a_lapd.php

Hey, if the illlegals don't have to have a driver's license, then no one else should either. That is $31.00 a head that they are not collecting in fees.

http://dmv.ca.gov/dl/fees/driverlicense_fees.htm

Illegals are a specially protected group of people it seems. Break one law by coming here, no problem, break another law like driving without a license, no problem....where does it end?

Originally Posted by Jean

Illegals are a specially protected group of people it seems. Break one law by coming here, no problem, break another law like driving without a license, no problem....where does it end?

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Los Angeles was the 'invasion laboratory' where the globalists were allowed to create sanctuary for the invaders.

It has now gone nationwide, and this country is on the brink of implosion from the heavy weight of over twenty million illegal aliens now relying on an already bankrupt welfare system.

WHO is behind this? Answer: Organized Religion.

The Roman Catholic Church has a very long history of inciting resistance to United States laws, specifically United States Immigration Laws.

They have been getting away with this for decades.
Mobile Archbishop Thomas Rodi, formerly of New Orleans, sues to block Alabama immigration law
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-248788-0-da ... rasc-.html

Los Angeles Special Order 40 could never have been allowed or perpetrated if not for the Roman Catholic Church.

Los Angeles RCC Cardinal Mahoney is now retired, but while he was an active Cardinal he repeatedly inspired millions of illegal aliens to STEAL their way into the United States and PROTECTED them under the shadow of the RCC when they got here.

Cardinal Mahoney has said point blank that his followers should disregard laws on immigration as a matter of Catholic conscience.

This is the same Cardinal who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep secret all documents related to pedophilia among priests.

But the Cardinal and other Catholic leaders are quick to embrace the laws of bankruptcy protection in order to not compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and keep them out of the U.S. judicial system. So far, five such dioceses have done just that.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/06/dobbs. ... index.html

Religious Groups Push for Immigration Reform
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... 20,00.html

displacement
The removal of someone or something by someone or something else that takes their place

The enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster