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Jorge Rivas


California Sobriety Checkpoints Prove Profitable for Cities While Bankrupting Immigrants

A new report by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley with California Watch found that in 2009 California’s sobriety checkpoints nabbed about 3,000 drunk drivers off the road but also impounded the cars of 24,000 unlicensed drivers.

The state-aided checkpoints, which net $40 million annually in fines and seizures, are often in or near Latino neighborhoods, and vehicles seized for lack of drivers licenses mostly come from people of color — “often illegal immigrants,â€