Undocumented immigrants now eligible for state-funded scholarships and financial aid

SAN DIEGO ? Critics of Asserably Bill 1389, like Santa Rosa Democrat Michael Allen, say the current law allows sobriety checkpoints to generate revenues for cities at the expense of undocumented immigrants who aren't allowed to get drivers' licenses.
The California Senate has voted to restrict cities' ability to confiscate cars and charge high towing and impound fees.
The bill was designed in response to the Southern California city of Bell, which filled its city coffers with high impound fees from DUI checkpoints. The city of Escondido has also been criticized for impounding the cars of drivers without licenses, notably undocumented immigrants.
Escondido police Chief Jim Maher, defended the practice
"The checkpoints were started before this became an issue with the illegal immigrant activists," Maher said. "We have done these since the '80s. We have done drivers' license checkpoints - which we now call 'traffic safety checkpoints' - since 2004. Both are totally unrelated to immigration."
Escondido has one of the highest ratios of impounRAB-to-arrests in California. Police there impound 11 cars for every one DUI arrest.[/quote]Already voted: http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/crime-and-justice-news/2011-08-california-pols-seek-to-ease-cities-grip-on-impounde
 
This was a decent post:
All of the "problems" with undocumented immigrants would be alleviated if immigration wasn't illegal in the first place.
 
No, it is not.


You mean like...FILING FOR CITIZENSHIP....like you have to do in EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

There's nothing wrong with having people file for a visa or other kind of entry permit to come here. What is wrong with it is the difficulty of it. There should be no fees and all those other strings attached.


Whether you think the laws are draconian or not, telling those laws to cram isn't doing much...it's just giving people more incentive to border jump and wasting the time and money of border patrol/ICE when they clearly have much bigger things to worry about like the drug cartels along the Mexico border.
 
Chinese students are doing that en masse right now. They seek university level education abroad in North America, Aus/NZ and Europe, then they take everything they learned back home. At least they pay good money to our schools for it instead of siphoning off our tax money.
 
We lasted a good 150 years or so without immigration laws. Our first immigration laws were to forbid the importation of slaves. We didn't have draconian immigration laws until the rise of progressivism. But I'm not surprised that you would support progressivist laws, especially seeing as how you're appealing to the rest of the progressivist "developed world."



Overloading immigration enforcement probably won't do anything to whittle away at piss poor immigration policies.
 
We started excluding people from immigrating at least as early as 1882 when the US government denied entry to certain Chinese laborers.



Forcing slaves to come here isn't quite the same as making willful immigration

As for the current laws, like I said, I want to see them become much more simplified so that it is a hell of a lot easier to immigrate here. Even before the act in the 1950's that created the bulk of the current laws, people still went through a check point, were documented, and then sent on their way.



Where did I say it would? I said it's a waste of fucking time to give people incentives to break the current laws so that it wastes the time and money of border patrol and ICE. Which, by the way, is only going to add fuel to the fire of the people who are staunchly anti-immigration as more people flood across because of the incentives given to them for coming here.
 
Yeah, laborers that didn't want to be here (aka, "slaves") couldn't be forced into the country.


I'm fine with enforcing checkpoints. I think it's reasonable to assume that anyone who refuses to enter or leave through a checkpoint is probably someone that is up to no good. Other than that, there shouldn't be any laws regarding immigration.


Can't prosecute everyone.

It's like how everyone and their mother steals music, and threats of lawsuits haven't done anything to slow it down, and if anything they've incentivized people to refuse to give money to the record companies. So the RIAA decided that its aggressive copyright defense was a losing battle.
 
claim that laws like this will increase the population of undocumented immigrants



then claim that a population of undocumented immigrants won't effect change in immigration policy
 
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