A California town is taking sides in the immigration debate in a big way--it's declared itself a safe haven for illegals and taken some really stupid steps to guarantee it.
One of the first things that it did was eliminate safety checkpoints, which are designed to help police get drunk, unsafe, or unlicensed drivers off the road. As most people know, it's standard procedure for police officers to ask for a driver's license and registration during a stop.
At these checkpoints, they would discover many drivers operating a vehicle without a valid California driver's license or registration. Upon further investigation, they would discover that the driver was also in the country illegally. The cars would be impounded.
California law also gives drivers 30 days to pay off impound fees, and to get a valid license and registration to get their cars back. But many illegals chose not to.
The other boneheaded move the city council made was it eliminated the traffic division of their police department because it was determined that they were giving too many tickets to illegals. So they can't pull over a reckless driver who clearly doesn't know what he/she is doing behind the wheel, can't read the signs, and is a disaster waiting to happen.
Illegal immigrants are already in violation of our laws; when a municipal government chooses to disregard state and national laws regarding the disposition of illegals, they have to dismantle other common law enforcement practices to make their illegal and unwise political move a reality.
It's unsafe; and it's astonishing that a town could make such dangerous decisions like this.
All it's going to take is one person getting killed by a drunk on a street where there were once safety checkpoints in operation--but no longer--and it will probably be a Latino member of the community (since 97% of the town is Latino) who dies--to convince these idiots that they've gone too far.
And it will be too late to do anything about it.
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