Thread: 23,000 US driver's licenses, license plates stored in Juáre

23,000 US driver's licenses, license plates stored in Juárez

By Marisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso Times
Posted: 04/06/2011 12:10:59 PM MDT

Juárez authorities seized more than 23,000 driver's licenses and license plates, mostly issued in Texas and New Mexico, in 2010 for traffic violations, the Juárez comptroller said in a press release.

They belong to U.S. drivers cited in Juárez who have yet to pay their fines and retrieve their documents, Juárez authorities said.

Now, Juárez officials will meet with their counterparts in El Paso April 22 to address the issue to create a shared database, a spokesperson said.

Normally, when a driver is cited for a traffic violation in Juárez, traffic officers seize his or her driver's license or license plate and keep it until the fined drivers pay their tickets.

But fined U.S. motorists go back to their country and get new driver's
licenses or license plates and rarely pay their fines to retrieve their documents in Juárez, the local comptroller said.
"For them, it is easier to get new documents in their country than paying their tickets (in Mexico)," the Juárez official said in a statement. "But we lose revenue," he said.

Juárez officials want to set up a joint database with the U.S. to prevent fined U.S. drivers in Mexico from getting new documents, he said.

Marisela Ortega Lozano, mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-6077.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17783910

Tough Sheet, WE lose revenue when you dump your poor on us, so deal with it!

Each of those driver's licenses has some one's name, address and date of birth on it.
Just waiting to be used by someone from Mexico.

And the plates can be put on stolen cars to help hide the fact that they are stolen.

Does this mean it will work both ways if a mexican has fines in the U.S. and runs to mexico to avoid the penalty for their actions then the mexican officials will get the money for us? How about all the stops the police make down there for no other reason than to fleece the american drivers do I get my $40 back?

At least they have licenses, unlike the illegals the Mexican government dumps on us.

This really pisses me off. First of all, they are lying about how they came into all of those license plates. Thy conveniently fail to mention that they confiscate US license plates on a regular basis because they "feel like it", not because American's have violated any kind of traffic infractions. For instance, we drove our truck into Juarez one time and they took our license plates merely because we had a toolbox in the truck. (that's what they said) We had to pay them a damn fee (AKA bribe) to be able to get our plates back. And of course, what proof would anyone have as to why their plates were taken away? It's not like they give you anything on paper. Most people either pay the bribe or they don't bother to get their plates back because they fear being jailed on a nothing charge or something worse.