California’s Assembly: Don’t Deport Illegal Alien DUI’s.
Sorry for two immigration posts in one afternoon, but I thought this was particularly egregious: the Public Safety Committee of the California Assembly just rejected, 5-2, a law that would require police to notify ICE of illegal immigrants convicted of driving under the influence–with the expectation that they would be deported.
More about Sara Cole and why the law was named after her here:
Bill Cole, Sara’s ex-husband, is trying to do more. Cole is seeking support for Assembly Bill 1882 - “Sara’s Law” - which would require police to report illegal immigrants to immigration if they are convicted of driving under the influence. Rodriguez was convicted of a misdemeanor DUI in March of 2007, a year and a half before his drunken driving resulted in the injuries suffered by Sara Cole.
The Sara’s Law site is here. I hope the Assembly will reconsider its decision. It’s indefensible.
MORE: Patterico blogged the crash that injured Sara Cole here. It looks like her ex-husband may have chimed in in the comments. (h/t to Annursa for that.)
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Unfortunately, there are people who think like Geraldo, that is, illogically.
All reasonable people in California, give your assembly person an earful.
California is going to run all the reasonable, sane, hard-working people out, and then it will completely collapse when it can no longer afford to support all these liberal ideas. SO glad I don’t live there.
DUI?? We can’t even get illegal alien rapists deported in New Jersey.
First the DUI’s; next they will be keeping those convicted of vehicular manslaughter, child molesters…where will they draw the line?
Please explain to me why this is allowed in our country?
When are the Jenna 6 folks that flooded Jenna, Louisiana going to step to the plate for America?
Well if California starts telling ICE about Illegial Immigrants, who will take care of the Marijuana fields?
The democrats smell the white house and total power. Getting the illegal vote and legal hispanics’ vote is more important than protecting the country. The hispanic lobbies are hard at work.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Just remember to seal that mask Private, don’t want you getting a contact high.
This was a decision by their “Public Safety Committee”, no less.
Classic.
We have so many people in this area of TX killed or seriously injured by drunken drivers, and, sorry see dubya but most of them seem to have Those
surnames and cannot speak English. The others seem to be white men or
women with multiple dwi’s under their belts. Juries and judges seem to feel,
“there but for the Grace of God, go I” and won’t give them serious prison time.
If everytime an illegal (of any ethnic background) committed a crime, and we
either deported them after their prison time or after their trial if they don’t
get prison time, we would be able to get a lot of illegals out of the country.
In this country? Mass Murder. Probably.
It’s almost like California’s legistlature is made up of illegal aliens!
Notice to legal citizens residing in California - get out quick!!
Figures…who wants to bet the five dissenting votes either (1) are of Latino heritage, or (2) have a LARGE Lation constituency.
These types of politicians will NEVER vote for anything that is, appears to be, or smells like anti-Hispanic, or anti-illegal immigrant legislation. Unfortunately, too many of them are in positions of leadership in the California legislative houses to make any progress towards rational thinking or action.
Pretty soon the illegals are going to wish ICE picked them up first…. this has become ridicules and people aren’t going to stand for it much longer.
One more reason to never visit California and to avoid anything produced by this outlaw state.
It’s amazing there is a need to write new laws for this.
Astounding is all I can say without using the “flowery” language usually reserved for my ex.
Ladies, Gentlemen and Liberals. The left does not consider illegals “wrong”.
They want them here.
Some want them here because they are bleeding heart morons, and some want them here so as to create another beholding clsss that will vote for Democrats. Like libs are wont to do, they will deny this, and they will try to spin the issue as Republicans fault, because businesses need labor.
Democrats want them here. Period
To Hell with Mexifornia. Let em reap what they sow. Between the invasion from the third world and the outrageous tax structure there, there won’t be any Americans there in twenty years except for the Hollywood leftists. Los Angeles has already been conquered and San Francisco has put out the welcome mat for the invaders.
Couldn’t have more meaning than if I said it myself Grape Ape!
God forbid, if one of these assembly members family members were killed by an illegal alien dui, then would they do something about deporting them? Does it take the whole assembly to have a death due to illegal dui to deal with this?
L
That’s sure the truth! Or buy their expensive lettuce and avocados, or the ’stuff’ from Hollyweird.
While reading the linked article in the San Jose Mercury News I couldn’t help but feel for the poor, contrite Lucio Rodriguez of San Jose as he faced Sara, and accepted his responsibility for the “accident”. What I felt was anger and contempt for this guy for whom the SJMN headlined, “There could be no winner in tragic case of Sara Cole”. Remarkably the paper thinks the idea of a law reporting illegals caught in a DUI to ICE is a good idea.
Patterico has more details here in a post from the time of the incident. Note Comment #12, by Sara Cole’s ex-husband.
Here is the text of the committee’s judgment.
Is it a DUI if you’re driving a bicycle?
Another case of illegal aliens doing work Americans won’t do, getting DUI’s. Although I thought we had plenty of homegrown scumbags doing that already.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart you wonderful people in Sacramento for keeping me safe.
Sorry about link. HERE is the correct link and it is not the text of the judgement but rather of the committee’s analysis.
Thanks, TOS. I’ll take a look at that.
Number of employees of Pilgrim’s Pride arrested today expected to be in the
hundreds. Said that some people have been notified by IRS that their ssn’s
have been stolen by telling them they have to pay taxes on monies they have
not earned. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I might wonder if there was any
extra money or if the IRS made it up to get extra tax money. (That is
courtesy of my 80 yr old neighbor).
How can he have a suspended license if he is an illegal alien?
No, she was here living a nice life while some scumbag broke into the country. He had no right to be here. He was the one who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. What a poor choice of words.
Baystaterepublican
Yes it is.
I watch tru tv and have seen them haul off people on golfcarts,bikes,4 wheelers. I at first thought they’d load em up and take em home,but to the pookie they went.
They’ll pop you for riding your schwinn but not tell on those poor poor people.
MM posts are full of what Obama calls bitternes. They “cling” to guns and especially hatred of illegal immigrants. Did you know that working illegals have taxes withheld but never get refunds because they can’t file tax returns?
That said, I’m all for throwing the book at drunk drivers.
The California assembly is obsessed with homosexuality and illegal aliens they are literally trying to ram their agenda down our throats. This flies in the face of the voting public as you can see by past election history. There are a number of things that need to be done but they are intent on flipping the bird at the legal citizens who don’t engage in a particular abnormal behavior that they endorse. They are right now trying to homosexualize our grade school kids but too many people home school hence the recent ruling outlawing that. It’s a fascist like push to turn the whole state in to San Francisco. People are leaving and I don’t blame them especially if they have kids to look out for. No it won’t be long before swartzenberger and the rest of them are stuck here with the gangsa’s I wonder how long they will last? Whatever you do don’t let these people come anywhere near running your state after they have wrecked their own and moved on in a way similar to but more destructive than locusts. I would leave myself but it appears that many other states are overrun with islamists, illegals or leftists themselves, I just don’t see anywhere to go.
Skateboards too.
The California Assembly’s “Public Safety Committee” is notorious for protecting child molesters and illegal aliens. They are actually even to the left of Obama. Fortunately, a number are shortly to be termed out. Unfortunately, there are plenty of whacky libs still left in the Assembly to take their places. They have also prevented adoption of Jessica’s law in California.
Boy, they have a hube pair to be in Washington begging for more federal money today. Deny Them, Deny Them, Deny Them any federal funds. And I live in this hell hole.
Boo frigging hoo. What about the $70 billion they suck off the
governmentUS Citizens hard labor? lgm, your posts are usually lame but that one…Why would a law that protects Californians from illegal aliens driving under the influence be such a bad thing unless the legislature were to be controlled by the MEF (Mexican Expeditionary Forces)?
Kawleefornyuh is under occupation, Absolut Reconquista.
Wow…that is pretty far out there tgusa. And what motivation is there for them to “homosexualize” grade school kids?
I guess at some point, as was the case the 1770’s, you have to either leave, or take matters into your own hands.
This sickening. It’s in the same league as giving illegals liver transplants (over US Citizens) as we discussed the other day on another MM topic.
The state (and country) needs to take care of its own first.
Apparently, the Socialist Republik of Kalifornia where I live deems that illegals are more important than its own citizens.
DEPORT THEM NOW.
It’s a bunch of garbage! What is wrong with California?
My husband was rear ended at a red light by a drunk illegal alien a few years ago …(no car insurance) who tried to flee, but hit a tree.
The drunk illegal never even went to court.
I think it’s a lot higher than that. How do you put a price on dozens of hospitals that have had to shut down in the border states because they are overwhelmed by illegals?
An most important of all, how do you put price on a life taken by an illegal alien murderer or the possibility of Sara Cole losing her leg?
What price?
I just called this idiot Solorio’s office. All you need to know is he is the Assembly Rep for Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Anaheim. Three cities completely over-run with illegal aliens. What a surprise that another politician with a latin surname is coming out in favor of illegal aliens. Now that is true racism.
When you get to section 4 of the comments in the link TOS provided try not to gag on the liberal speak. I almost puked. Here is a snippet:
Bolded emphasis mine. So let me get this straight. The committee, in their infinite wisdom, decided that since they had no data on drinking rates among ethnic groups that since the arrest rates were higher among Hispanics and African-Americans than the population percentages in the state that there must be racial profiling going on? Wow, that is a stretch even for a liberal. Could it be that more Hispanics actually drink and drive? Could it be that those ethnic groups have a higher percentage of people that can’t drive efficiently enough while intoxicated to fool an officer into thinking they are sober? I love how the committee used a Google search (cause we all know that if you find it on Google it must be true) to provide proof of their racial profiling of DUI checkpoints. Right…….. And what is wrong with a police officer getting credit for helping enforce the law? Isn’t that what they are hired to do? It matters not that it is federal law, federal law supercedes state law which is why the DEA can legally raid marijuana producers in California since it is still against federal law to grow and sell and consume pot.
More puking action below:
More assumptions without any proof to back it up. I propose that it would actually save the city money since the one simple phone call to ICE (the only extra cost incurred) would get more felons off the road and sent to their home country where they would kill less people here in the United States with their drunk driving. And the immigration laws are not complex, you are either in the country legally or you are not. Simple as that. If you are here legally you will have legal documentation to prove it. Not that hard, really. Sheriff Joe does it here in Phoenix, and its working! It pisses the liberal mayor off, but that just makes me smile more.
I am all for deportation. However until we decide to fix the problem they will just come back. Simply put we need politicians in place with enough balls to stop federal funding of sanctuary cities and states. Then have the will to go after the employers who create the magnate by hiring them.
TOS, Perhaps because a bunch of sick @#$%s are pulling the strings?
come on now! Geraldo said that we should focus on the person’s crime and not their status has nothing to do with it. Hey Geraldo- Sara Cole is crippled; four kids are dead in Minnesota; and on, and on! All of whom were killed by an illegal who had been previously been stopped for a different traffic violation. What’s it gonna take!?
Well, I guess they are supporting Sen. Life Guard’s peeps?
What do you expect with California’s Legislation is overrun with Illegal Mexican supporters, it’s not a race issue, “Mexican” isn’t a race. But they would have you think it is. My question is; why are these people still being chosen as representatives for us and they’re not doing what the we send them to do or not to do? Stop voting these jack-asses back into office!
I stand corrected.
The outrageous Bill Analysis was written by Kathleen Ragan, a lawyer on the Assembly’s Committe on Public Safety. It’s not the first time Ms Ragan has worked against the interests of the remaining decent citizens of California…killing enhanced penalties by drawing a distinction between rape/murder and murder/rape.
Buffonery at it’s highest levels.
Nothing wrong with two posts — I appreciate the updates, although it doesn’t help my blood pressure.
I’m sure they declare 0 deductions so they can have the maximum amount taken from their checks. You know, it’s their way of giving back.
You really should stick to observing. Your posts are getting more and more ridiculous. It’s kind of sad really.
I am a native Californian, 57 years old. I remember when this state was the wonder of the world, with first class schools, colleges, roads, highways, etc. Sadly that is no longer the case.
My home state has been hijacked by the insane.
I retire in 4 years. I can’t wait to leave. And no, I’m not going to be bringing California with me when I do.
Concerned Citizen,
He’s off his game unless he can lecture us about the jihad on all the abortion clinics here in the states.
“Terms of use” prevents me from says what I really want to say about this.
Last month or so, a beautiful young woman from the metroplex was killed by an
illegal who was driving drunk. The usual people came out for the drunken guy
and tried to tell us that he too was a victim. Gag…barf!!!! The only thing he is a
victim of is the government of Mexico that can’t get off it’s corrupt backside to
come up with a real government ( actually, with the pols we have in DC we’re
almost in the same fix-government wise) so these people can make a living at
home. He kills this promising young woman and he is also a victim! That’s right
up there with the guy who killed his parents and then asked the court for
leniency because he was now an orphan.
This is a prime example of the anarchy that results from cross cultures. I have had illegal aliens from Mexico say to me on several occasions that they do not understand why DUI is a big deal in the United States, saying that in Mexico, driving intoxicated is not a big deal. You pay your fine and the problem is solved. Most of these people never had a car until moving here.
My roomate, a college student, asked me once for help in a debate paper where he needed to write an anti-illegal alien paper (his title was undocumented immigrant, that’s college for you), but he told me that his prof. refuted the claim that the United States has a culture. What Culture? she bellowed. So, the lobbying done by MADD in the 80’s to increase awareness and demand stronger penalties for DUI’s do not count as culture? Any American who drives intoxicated knows they are taking a big chance and face huge penalties if they are caught, especially if they hurt someone. He used my idea and I cannot wait to see how his prof. will merit his paper.
If illegals are not deported for driving drunk, they move to another city and assume a different identity. There is no license to keep track of and even if they get arrested in another city, most places will not pay to extradite for a misdemeanor crime like DUI (I see this all the time). Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, I never thought things could get so much worse.
Be careful where you move, the entire nation has been affected by the cancer that is California.
I got into an argument with a friend a couple of weeks ago. We were talking
about a dr that we both know, who, ten years ago was coming home from Padre Island with his wife and 4 children. He was getting sleepy, so he asked
his wife to drive the van and he crawled into the very back with their youngest
son and went to sleep. That’s the last time he saw his wife and 3 of his children
alive. A drunken illegal wiped them out. He didn’t get any time because he was
released on bond to await trial and disappeared. Our argument was..me..It
should be considered attempted murder to even get behind the wheel drunk.
Whether you hit anyone or not, you are driving a possible “death machine”,
impaired. Her…but you are impaired and don’t know what you are doing.
Need I say more for my side of the argument? I think the drunk illegal
should not have been granted bail and should have been held for murder.
I know, I know…hard hearted conservative.
sdillard you will be more than welcome in Idaho if you can stand the cold winters. Just make sure to ditch the California plates as soon as you can. I grew up in the Sacramento area (growing up in the Air Force never considered myself a CA resident), but have no family ties left there except my youngest brother and his family, who I am begging to flee as soon as he can.
I received my new magpul base plates for my AR-15 30 round magazines (illegal in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia, another reason not to live there) today and have been busy installing them as well as a nice tactical sling on my favorite personal defense rifle. The weapon is in the gun safe and the modified magazines are in the tactical vest hanging next to the old BDUs (I can still fit in after almost 8 years out of uniform). We get another nice weekend and I can sight in the new scope.
Looks like I will need this gear in the very near future unless our political overlords start to get with the program and enforce the rule of the law and start doing something about the Sharia creep and illegal invaders. I like most of you have had it with the illegal invader national sport of driving under the influence killing or injuring too many innocent Americans. Wonder which spark will set off the uprising, one innocent too many killed (remember to stay off the streets on 5 May) or the next Mayday invasion of our streets daring us to do something about them?
Time to sue the state of California for not protecting us. They put us in danger by not enforcing the laws of the land. Time for a writ of mandamus.
I was born in California and lived there a good part of my life. It’s like my mother always said - In California they care more about the criminals than the victims. Now with the environment out there - nothing will be done until they kill the governor’s daughter or Paris Hilton.
The only good thing about their demonstrations is…you can get a picnic table in our
area parks. When the demonstrate and demand “their civil rights” it only serves to tick
people off. Kind of wish they hadn’t stopped waving the Mexican flag during their
marches. Mean of me, huh? There will be a flashpoint. Don’t know what it will be but
there will be one.
…when they demonstrate…
I can’t wait for cinco de mayo, so the good citizens will be reminded of our illegal invaders once again.
I don’t know about them trying to homosexualize our kids but they are certainly trying to socialize them. Just another reason to home school.
The Assembly will have to lose a few of their own to DUI illegals to change their tune.
If the illegal immigrant got drunk on Absolut, all charges will be dropped due to sensitivity.
Deport him? That just wouldn’t be fair. We should issue him a drivers license.
-sarc off-
Seriously, cut his legs off and make him crawl back to Mexico on his hands and stumps.
The California Republic is now officially Baja California Norte del Norte. Sanctuary cities, check, Politicians pandering to illegals, check, Going to Jack in the box and having to ask for a English speaking employee, check. Official Welcome to BCNN!
We’ve been invaded by an “army” that has full intent to change our lives, laws and culture, and government welcomes them with open arms. There may come a time soon, when I throw up my hands, and go learn Spanish, just so I can communicate with someone or understand what the business sign says…if I can get close enough to read it, after wading through the all the day laborers standing out front.
When “the big one” strikes (as the scientists keep warning us) maybe this idiocy can get all sorted out and we can manage to politically reconstruct what’s left of California.
Scary thought, but it almost sounds like a plus. I don’t see much else coming along to force us to deal with the insanity in this state.
Why would they deport someone from one Mexican state to the other state of NorteAbsolut? It just doesnt seem economical……or……does……it…..
Sounds like a good plan.
Great advice from George Carlin:
In post 33, lgm said:
Then the illegals should go home and come here legally. Hard to get too much sympathy from me on that one.
Did you know that the illegals that actually have taxes taken out of their illegal pay is because they have stolen, or fabricated a social security card to gain employment at the expense of a lost job to an American.
Many are paid cash and that is hard to pay taxes on until they go to Wal Mart and my some Corona.
On April 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm, JohnnyDilznik said:
I just called this idiot Solorio’s office.
Note the last name of the sympathizer. What a surprise, hispanic. He supports illegal immigration for one reason. 95% of illegals are hispanic. If I could wave a wand and change those illegals from hispanic to white or asian overnight, I would bet 10 to 1 Solorio would have an epiphany and the next day call for enforcement of immigration laws. The motivations and objectives of racists like this are so transparent. But don’t dare call him on it, lest you yourself receive the biggot lable. Hypocracy at its finest.
On April 16th, 2008 at 6:26 pm, lgm said:
Consider it a down-payment on the remuneration due for all the tax payer funded services they receive.
What hatred, lgm? We invite (non-criminal) aspiring immigrants to come in thru the front door, not break in thru the window like a thief in the night.
It should be. We have the bitter taste in our collective mouth as we watch criminal invaders to our country kill and maim American citizens and our legal guests and do so without penalty. Our country has become a Fantasy Island for (mostly) Mexicans to come here and do any perverted thing they like and not ‘pay’ for it. All of it aided and abetted by our elected (by morons and illegals) officials.
The Last Great Mook has it right. We are starting to cling to our guns and religion. I can hardly wait ’til there’s a bounty on them.
Rooster…In TX they don’t use that much gas because they cram as many as possible into one car. See dubya would ban me if I told you what the cars are
called here.
I suspect the Mexican gov is handing out maps at the border that tell them the
best states to sneak into. I can never understand how ICE can’t find them when
all you have to do is go to Home Depot and look in front of the store or go to
the Mexican flea market on University every weekend ( they did arrest some
people awhile back who were selling counterfeit documents { drivers licenses,
ss cards, birth certificates, credit cards, etc} at the flea market) and start rounding
them up. If I can find them, and I seem to whenever I go into Fort Worth, why
can’t the authorities?
It already has in my case. After the riots myself and a lot of the people I worked with started looking for a way out. Dallas PD proved a popular destination, so much so that the DPD eventually said you would have to come to Texas and establish residency for one year before they would do your application. They said their background investigators were practically living in LA because of all the applicants.
I ended up heading north instead of east. Even with all the moonbats in Oregon, I preferred it over LA by a galactic sized margin.
I hate myself- sort of- but I couldn’t resist. What fun is it if you can’t laugh?
Not sure what happened there but….
Let’s try again.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6614112583389838150&q=carlos+mencia+god&ei=M-4ISKj6DpSUrgLlwMSfAQ&hl=en
And of course, it still posted the wrong link, sorry all, I’m an idiot.
Arnoldnator and Warren are doing a grant job of making CA seem like a giant sex toy. Citizens are Always screwed in CA.
Politicians CONTINUE to ignore the wishes of the American people. I feel the the day is RAPIDLY approaching when it is going to be VERY dangerous to be a politician and ILLEGAL immigration will be the MAIN reason!!!