Thread: Illegals fear losing cars & mobile homes (IN)

JOSEPH DITS
Tribune Staff Writer
December 24. 2007 6:59AM

Anxiety is rising among local undocumented immigrants who fear they
could lose their cars and mobile homes.

Some fears may be unfounded.

It comes as Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles checks its driver's
license and state ID card records with a Social Security database.

In November, the bureau sent letters to 206,000 residents whose records
didn't match -- a mix of races and situations that included native-born
citizens and undocumented immigrants.

If the mismatches aren't resolved by Jan. 31, licenses and ID cards will
be revoked.

And since Nov. 7, the BMV has been checking Social Security records
before issuing any new driver's licenses, ID cards, permits or titles to
cars and mobile homes. That enforces a rule that has been on Indiana's
books since 2001.

But the existing titles to cars and mobile homes won't be affected, BMV
spokesman Dennis Rosebrough said.

Then again, advocates ask, how do you drive without a license?

The rumors seem especially strong in the Goshen area, where many
immigrants live in mobile homes.

"Every single customer that walks in here talks about it," says Sergio
Guajardo, sales manager for the Mexicar used-car lots in Goshen and
Ligonier.

The Goshen lot has gone two months without selling a single car to its
mostly Latino customers. So Mexicar may decide to close the lot in a
couple of months, even though the lot opened six years ago and had
decent sales until now, Guajardo says.

Some folks return cars they'd bought there, thinking they won't be able
to hold onto them, and he adds, "I've been trying to tell people they
should try to wait."

Zulma Prieto, editor of the local Spanish language newspaper, El Puente,
says people have been acting on incomplete information. She, too, has
been looking for clarification as she raises awareness of the possible
risks on the radio, in her paper and in a meeting on the issue last week
in Goshen.

In South Bend, La Casa de Amistad Director Rebecca Ruvalcaba has spoken
with parents who are ridden with anxiety, asking, "What am I going to
do? My children are here and are born here."

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In November, the bureau sent letters to 206,000 residents whose records didn't match -- a mix of races and situations that included native-born
citizens and undocumented immigrants.

I bet 2 are native born and 205,998 are illegal.

"I'm afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with terrible resolve."
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor

It's all so sad

In South Bend, La Casa de Amistad Director Rebecca Ruvalcaba has spoken
with parents who are ridden with anxiety, asking, "What am I going to
do? My children are here and are born here."

My reply to these people would be:

Should have thought about that before breaking our laws, then compounding it with the cruelty to your own children! Did you even think ahead before having your anchor babies?

Have a friend you trust drive you south. Take the children home.

Originally Posted by Richard

Have a friend you trust drive you south. Take the children home.

Amen to that Richard..

In South Bend, La Casa de Amistad Director Rebecca Ruvalcaba has spoken
with parents who are ridden with anxiety, asking, "What am I going to
do? My children are here and are born here."

I guess it's time to pull up anchor and ship out

Not one iota of sympathy towards these lawbreakers. My own MIL's friend a 75 years old gentleman, got rear-ended recently by one of these people in the St. Louis area. HE had to pay off his $1,000 deductible

...the illegal who rear-ended him, had no license nor any insurance .... cost to her: ZERO.

They ALL ought to be rounded up and put in jail, then arranged to be deported. My MIL"s friend is lucky he still has his life.

As an American, I have an inner conscience that would not allow me to drive without a license or insurance. Those are the official requirements for the priviledge of driving . .. .why the HELL these individuals are allowed out on our roads w/o proper documentation is beyond me ... .our lives, and our insurance rates are all in jeopardy from it. CRAP needs to END.

Every single customer that walks in here talks about it," says Sergio Guajardo, sales manager for the Mexicar used-car lots in Goshen and Ligonier.

"Mexicar" use-car lots? Has this business lost it's way? Shouldn't it be located south of the border somewhere?

Imagine if we opened a business in Mexico and named it "Gringo Real Estate" or something?

In South Bend, La Casa de Amistad Director Rebecca Ruvalcaba has spoken with parents who are ridden with anxiety, asking, "What am I going to do? My children are here and are born here."

WHY DO THESE ILLEGALS SUDDENLY ACT SURPRISED? THEY KNEW THEY WERE BREAKING THE LAW BY COMING HERE. IT IS TIME TO PACK UP AND TAKE YOUR FAMILY HOME!

These outlaw foreigners SHOULD have EVERYTHING CONFISCATED from them! They are CRIMINAL trespassers and NEED to RETURN to their OWN countries or BE DEPORTED!