The good news is that most of the major problems impacting this country are relatively simple to solve if politicians found the will to do it. Illegal immigration is one of them.
The left likes to portray the out-of-control illegal immigration situation as a complex, unsolvable monster. How can we possibly afford all the buses we’d need to transport them home? We don’t have to. They would quickly deport themselves if we enforced existing laws on the books. Like the one about driving without a license.
For years, North Carolina knowingly doled out driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. A few years ago, the state was finally shamed into requiring proof of citizenship or legal residence to get a driver’s license. No driver’s license means you can’t get auto insurance. So if illegals are still driving sans license, they are doing it uninsured.
Gaston County commissioners are now pushing the state to pass a law that mandates that a car be towed if the owner can’t provide police with proof of insurance when they are pulled over. The car will eventually be impounded if proof of insurance is never provided. As in they can’t get it back. That’s right. Come here illegally, drive here illegally, lose your car. The same consequences occur if you are legally here but simply uninsured.
Fantastic. And so simple.
Right now, illegals without license and proof of insurance are often merely ticketed and allowed to drive off in most places in North Carolina. (In Mecklenburg, police have the discretion to take them down to the sheriff’s office if the can’t ID them, which gets them into the immigration system but rarely results in deportation. So here, sometimes they drive off and sometimes they don’t.)
In parts of Texas where this is now law, 90 percent of those who lacked insurance in the initial weeks and had their cars impounded were illegal drivers.
And there is an added benefit:
Statistics have shown that a large number of motorists operate vehicles without insurance, and when those drivers are involved in wrecks, second parties and their insurers are often forced to shoulder the financial burden, with no recourse, he said.
Taking away illegals’ mobility in this country, which they are not legally entitled to anyway, is one way to make living here very difficult, especially for those who don’t work in one fixed location continuously so that they can take the bus. Add that to the already difficult economic situation, and you increase the odds they flee back home.
