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Shame On North Carolina’s DMV: What Are They Thinking?
Joan Harrold Messner
Author: Joan Harrold Messner
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: January 2, 2007



FSM has run a multi-part series in these pages on the many lethal crimes committed by illegal aliens, in an effort to stop left wing politicians from claiming that illegal immigration is a “victimless” crime. Nothing could be further form the truth, as FSM Contributing Editor Joan Messner reveals in this shocking close-up of the mess in North Carolina that affects every single U.S. citizen.

Shame On North Carolina’s DMV: What Are They Thinking?

Joan Harrold Messner


Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia, N.C., was killed recently, not by a sniper in the Iraq war, from which he’d returned home in one piece, but by a drunk illegal alien who obtained his driving license in North Carolina.

In North Carolina, one does not have to provide proof of legal status to obtain a legal driver’s license.

In North Carolina, your family pet can get a driving license.

Mathew’s squad leader remembered Mathews’ unflinching performance under fire when their unit walked into a sniper ambush in Iraq last year. According to the World Net Daily, Cpl. Robinson said, “he was beside me the whole time; he was giving his team commands. He was a perfectionist Marine, and it really showed. We didn’t have one casualty or one killed
in action in the ambush”.

To double the tragedy, Mathews’ date Jennifer Bower of Montgomery Village was also killed when the car, driven by illegal Eduardo Morales- Soriano, drunk at four times the legal blood-alcohol limit, slammed into them as they waited at a stop-light.

North Carolina has become the east coast destination of choice for illegals who want driving licenses because the state’s requirements for documentation are sloppy and their verification
of document legitimacy is nearly non-existent.

According to WorldNet News, “Court officials in New Jersey…have complained that [North Carolina’s] requirements are so weak, busloads of illegal immigrants get on I-95...to North Carolina to obtain licenses fraudulently.”

To deepen the crisis, once an illegal has a North Carolina license, he can take that “legitimate”
license and use it in any other state to get another license. This process can be repeated ad infinitum until it is nearly impossible to get back to the source of the crime of using fraudulent documents to get the original license.

In 2005 North Carolina police made drunk driving arrests of a staggering 76,000 Hispanic
drivers; what percent were illegal aliens seems to be “unknown”. Could North Carolina DMV be covering its backside with the “unknowns” in the wake of three more deaths caused by illegal drivers in the last two weeks?

Helen Hughes, 22, Jennifer Carter, 18, and Ben Leonard, 16, were killed by Pasto Rios Sanchez when he crossed the center line and hit Hughes’ car head-on. Sanchez had been arrested at least three times previously for driving infractions, so apparently North Carolina is lax with driving
infraction arrests as well.

In 2005 Scott Gardner of Mount Holly, North Carolina, was struck and killed by an illegal, Ramiro Gallegos, who had been charged with drunk driving three times previously, according to the Raleigh News-Observer. Had Gallegos been arrested and deported, Gardner would be alive today, and two children would not be growing up without their father.

Why don’t the good citizens of North Carolina run those bureaucrats at the DMV right out of town and get some responsible people behind the DMV desks to protect their citizens? Why are the people not lobbying their state and local politicians to do the same?

And let’s not forget that illegal aliens with North Carolina licenses are not forced to stay in North Carolina and drive only in North Carolina. They are free to cross state lines and take aim at any citizen who has the misfortune to turn up in the drunk’s headlights. Thus, all of us should complain to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, and this can be done right here: http://www.dmv.org/nc-north-carolina/de ... hicles.php at their website.

Tragically, in addition to North Carolina, ten other states do not require proof of legal status: Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. They all have websites on which you can register loud complaints.

Many illegal aliens get their licenses in North Carolina but many illegals drive without any license at all. In addition to being unlicensed, they are uninsured. In areas with huge illegal alien populations, more drive without insurance than with insurance, For example, in San Jose, CA., 55 % of drivers are uninsured; in parts of Los Angeles the rate is as high as 90%!

This is an out-of-control problem and it is another issue being swept under the rug for two reasons: first, political correctness, which has made cowards of us all, politicians and citizens alike; and second, politics, i.e. politicians ever on the make for a larger constituency. Among these politicians, there is no regard for the safety and lives of Americans who work hard to pay the taxes that enable the politicos to keep the cycle of tragic deaths inexorably turning.

Although, in the next election cycle, this may result in a temporary surge of votes from the community supportive to illegal aliens, the price we Americans pay is indelible and forever, and is evident in precious, innocent lives extinguished and families devastated with loss.



FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Joan Harrold Messner
is a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License.