I use to think this country needed illegals and was pro human rights. Now, just about everyday I see an example of the damage they are doing. I just put at least $1500 in this car and got it running sweet. I’m going to part it out email me for parts V_rizla@hotmail.com New head, cap rotor, coil, distributor,alternator mass air

Too bad about your car. Also too bad it wasn't a few weeks ago---then I could have cut you off a perfect quarter panel from the one I crashed on the ice, but it has already gone for scrap metal. I would have let you have it real cheap too, though shipping from VA might have upped the total quite a bit.

How are you without transportation?? It still looks perfectly driveable to me---if the rear side window is broken, either get one from the junkyard or cut a piece of plexi to fit, and you're good to go, at least until your inspection runs out.

As for the question of illegal immigrants, that discussion more properly belongs in the OPINIONS section, but here's my two cents: Yours is a perfect example of why EVERYONE, including illegals, should be allowed/required to get a drivers license and insurance if the are going to operate a motor vehicle. Bad enough that they're here illegaly, we don't need them on the road illegally too. That whole business of the "Real ID" act is A TOTAL LOAD OF CRAP, and, even if it had been in place in 2000, it would have done NOTHING WHATSOEVER to have stopped the 9/11 hijackers, as they were here legally, on student visas, learning to fly airplanes or something, and therefore were fully entitled to obtain a drivers license in the state they were residing in. All that "Real ID" is any good for is making your state taxes go up, like any other unfunded federal mandate (estimated cost---$15 Billion) and helping implement the surveillance state that is the neo-cons' dream.

At any rate, there will soon be a lot fewer illegals, as the housing market downturn gets worse and the construction jobs continue to dry up. As money gets tighter, more people will cut their own grass, instead of paying a Mexican to do it, etc, etc.

I do agree that illegals should be held without bond if charged with a crime (or causing an accident, while unlicensed/uninsured) and deported promptly upon conviction. Its debatable whether or not they should have to serve a jail sentence (at US taxpayer expense) or just be sent home and prohibited from ever coming back.

Many years ago my dad was working in Washington, DC, and living in Arlington Virginia. The grandson of the Mexican ambassador broadsided my dad in his new Plymouth with less than 500 miles on it. Even thought it was the grandson who was not licensed anywhere, diplomatic immunity was claimed and my dad had to pay the damage deductable and cover car rental out of his pocket.
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It is a real problem.

The local Law enforcement says it's a FED issue, the Feds can't be bothered. You WILL see vigilanties getting it taken care of soon. It is beyond serious at this point.

Sorry for you issue
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'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me http://home.no.net/ebrox/Tony's%20cars.htm

I’m not going to let this whole thing bring me down. Yes it was a great car Spent a nice amount of money on parts, put a lot of hours of work in it and only had it on the road for 3 weeks and I currently have no transportation and can’t get the police report for 10 days, but life is still good. I had a lot of fun working on the car and it was a great learning experience. The truck that hit me actually had insurance on it even though the driver didn’t so I should be compensated. The insurance company is going to try and screw me but I’m not gonna take any shit. I have a ton of receipts and other documentation. It’s just so messed up that we have people here illegally and there is nothing the police can do about it. I worked in the restaurant business for a long time and there were always illegal working there the business depended on them. . I have reported some places to ICE and nothing was done. I have seen so many illegal women get pregnant and have their babies free of charge. Having more of them brought into the world to live free of taxes and have free health care. And aren’t their children auto0matily American citizens if they are born here? Something major needs to be done and none of the presidential candidates will do anything. I have been a democrat for most of my political life but know where the hell I’m at. These people are a cancer that needs to be removed. There are Americans who have worked hard all their lives paid taxes and there being ignored and left to die.

I understand your grief, I sure would be pissed if I was in your shoes, BUT:
Your point is only valid if you are direct descendant of Native Americans. I’m pretty sure what happened to you is only minor inconvinence compared to being forced to live in reservations, after morally superior white immigrants 500 years ago started to encroach on the land that was rightfully yours for centuries.
Sorry about your car, but it’s just that: a car.

If your attitude is that it is " just a car" , why don't YOU dig down in your pockets and reimburse him for it... it's just money. I can't stand bleeding hearts.



cx

My attitude, if any, is that the fact that crash was caused by Mexican has no bearing in the matter. My attitude, as you put it, is that poor Mexican has a lot more on his mind, just trying to survive.

Is land really "yours" if you just walk on it or ride on a horse over it? The American Indians with some exceptions were hunter/gatherers that did not creat a culture anywhere's near the Incas or Aztecs. As far as being forced to live on reservations with everything given to them it's now their choice. If they don't want to move and assimilate then please don't complaine. I'm a legal immigrant from Canada in SoCal and Mexican illegals are a big problem and a hugh drain on our economy. But the money they send back to Mexico is that countries SECOND largest source of revenue after oil exports. Banks in Mexico get 10-15% off the top of all money transfers. This is ALOT of money and some gets passed along to the politicans as it does here and they in turn pay off whoever's in Washington at the time not to stop illegal immegration. They don't want the money faucet shut off. That's why your're never gona see a fence. The corrupt Mexican government really blew it! The country could have been another "China" so to speak supplying all the goods to the US. It's a real shame. Now all they do is export people and import money. Hmmm... maybe they're not so dumb after all??? But I'm afraid things won't improve until the Mexican social system improves and their economy gets good enough to entice their people back because after all most would really rather be back in Mexico anyway. But don't hold your breath .....

They ware happy with the way they lived. Who gave immigrants the right to treat them as inferiors and force them to assimilate into society that we might consider superior? You are bitching about a few illegal immigrants and effect they have on your life, now put yourself into position where everything you hold dear would be destroyed by another race, clamming to be superior to yours. They would force you to accept their values and way of life. America went to war at just of hint of this proposition.
Culture? Let’s not talk about culture, or lack of it, that immigrants brought over from the old world. Most of them ware too poor to care or too rich to give a damn. What they had though, ware firearms.

>>>Is land really "yours" if you just walk on it or ride on a horse over it?<<<
No, it's yours when you have an arsenal of nuclear missiles at your disposal. :-)

I'm not up to speed on US history but didn't they kinda get screwed out of a huge chunk of the S. west?

MAybe its my imagination but I get the impression they still want it.
They seem to be getting it little by little.

They only had it for about 20 minutes.

You may want to open a book on California history before makin such inaccurate statements.Mexico never really had a hold on Alta California>Long live the bear flag revolt>

I'm relating what I saw on PBS the other nite about kit Carson fighting the mexicans.

Its irrelevant to me, but I think I guage the Mexican attitude correctly.
They drink the poison of resentment and expect Americans to drop dead.

Theres a bit of that in Canada too.

And industrial Japan.

Say, I think its everywhere.!



My sisters car got whacked by an uninsured in AZ, just take what you can and move on.

The areas they claim is what they stole from the natives,,,,who never had functioning BORDER CONTROL!!!

We bought some of it and some of it (Texas) the residents voluntarily joined
the US. The ones that were here at the time became legal US citizens but many
were denied civil rights.
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!

Some folks have all the luck. I've been trying to find one to hit my 88 760; Darn! Seriously, after the elections this fall Obama will be president and there won't be anymore illegals; the problem will be fixed.

Regards,
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Will Dallas, www.willdallas.us, www.willdallas.org, www.willdallas.com, www.dallasprecision.com 86 245 DL 222K miles, 93 940 260K miles, 88 765 GLE 152K miles

THEN WE'LL MAGICALLY HAVE MORE LEGAL MOSLEMS,,,FORGET THAT EVEN MCCAIN LOOK S MIGHTY GOOD THEN AT LEAST HE'LL HAVE JOBS FORTHEM AFTER THE DRAFT IS PUT BACK INTOEFFECT

Yeh they will be made legal with a signature. Still will not have insurance but our wonderful Government will find a way to protect them from prosecution and deportation.

Been there done that, lost a nice 85 turbo diesel Jetta that way.
Nevermind that I was just married and 18 years old with a newborn, struggling my ass off. Yeah..

Boy do I hear you guys, I had a 14 year illegal drive a dump truck into the rear end of a customer's car while on a test drive. Of course I have shop owner's insurance but the customer was not covered and it is their responsibility, not mine, to insure their vehicle. Turns out that it is a whole liability issue, if I did something liable then I would be covered, since I did nothing other than sit at the limit line of the intersection waiting for the light to turn green while the 14 year old illegal ran into and almost over me, I am not liable and the responsibility lies first with the person who hit me, good luck there, and secondly with the customer who did not carry uninsured motorist coverage, nice huh? I hammered my insurance company long and hard enough that they finally gave in, stepped up, and covered the ungrateful piece of crap that the customer turned out to be. In the end it cost me a customer, the $1500.00 dollar ticket that the car was, the additional $700.00 worth of repairs that the had just authorized before I took it out for the test drive/crash, a $500.00 deductable, oh, and my insurance rates went up about $1200.00 for the year and will stay up, period. So what do you think, am I pro illegal? Yeah friggin right!?!?? You can keep 'em.

Oh, if all of that crap is not bad enough, the cop basically tells me that nothing is going to happen, they are not even concerned with his illegal status in the country and that he has been barred from getting a license until he is 18!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm getting red in the face all over again just rehashing this B.S.

Mark

I feel your pain. An uninsured driver plowed into the back of my new '63 Dodge Dart in Memphis, while I was stopped. He had no license, no insurance, no job, no money, no nothing. The judge said "Well I can't take his license, he doesn't have one. I can't fine him, he doesn't have a job. Case dismissed." State Farm was zero help, worse than zero.
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1986 Volvo 245

I must say that it is certainly heartening to see so many conservatives driving these notoriously left wing cars. There may be hope for America yet!:)

Here in Charlotte, NC there are reported to be as many as 300,000 illegals and we have had several fatal drunk driver accidents in the past year alone attributed to illegal immigrant drunks; not to mention thefts of property, rapes, and child molestation by the same segment of the population. Nationally the statistics indicate that roughly 3 times as many American citizens have died at the hands of illegals in America since the start of the Iraqi incursion than have been killed in Iraq. Perhaps this is the one issue that will unite the citizens of the USA in a common struggle to perserve our way of life.

Regards,

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Will Dallas, www.willdallas.us, www.willdallas.org, www.willdallas.com, www.dallasprecision.com 86 245 DL 222K miles, 93 940 260K miles, 88 765 GLE 152K miles

"Nationally the statistics indicate that roughly 3 times as many American citizens have died at the hands of illegals in America since the start of the Iraqi incursion than have been killed in Iraq."

1) Source of National "statistics" referred to?

2) Define "Iraqi incursion".

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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.

Good grief...

Would it have made you happier if the guy driving had been a banker whose insurance had expired??

Here in what some Neo-Cons call Commie Canada, we have provincially-run insurance. Is it perfect? No, there never will be a perfect system. You cannot renew your plate unless you buy insurance: very few "uninsured drivers" out there, whether they are illegals or not. Veritable Communism!

As far as illegals in the US, from what we hear the US could not exist without them: no legal American is going to do what they do for the wages they get. In my mind, that is just a hair short of slavery...

We have some lousy drivers up here as well, many from other countries, but the guy that plowed into the back of my Rustang was a retired midwest farmer driving a 3/4 ton pigup towing a 5th wheel. The crash could have killed us, but where he came from made no difference to the outcome.

Please put a call in to the Mexican government and let them know that Canada would like to have ALL the illegals they can supply. Maybe then the illegals will bypass the U.S. and go straight to the Great White North and you all can deal with the associated problems.






cx

Hm? We already welcome Mexicans to Canada, and they are less of a problem than immigrants, legal and otherwise, from other areas of the world. We have a different legal system (justice is hard to find anywhere in North America) that does not allow for race or country of origin to be used against anyone. It doesn't always work, but it works better than what we see happening in the US. Bring 'em on!

I am alway amazed that no one is willing to apply the same facts to an occurrence without referring to race or status. I stick with my question: would it have made a difference had the accident been with a banker or a Swede? If so, why?

From what we have seen down here, you folks gave up all rights to lecture when you allowed your personal freedoms to be eroded. I have friends in Manitoba that refer to your homeland as "Kanadastan" because of the lack of liberty. In the USA, we still value out liberties and recognize that to give in to illegal activities (such as immigration that is not through the "legal" channels)moves us closer to our Northern neighbor politically. It may be that is why folks are breaking down our border to get in and not Canada's. The United States is still called "the land of the free and home of the brave". Canada is where the cowards run to in times of conflict.


Regards,

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Will Dallas, www.willdallas.us, www.willdallas.org, www.willdallas.com, www.dallasprecision.com 86 245 DL 222K miles, 93 940 260K miles, 88 765 GLE 152K miles

Not sure what "freedoms" were eroded. We don't have a big problem when our version of the IRS tells us that we are about to be audited; we understand that most suicides in the US are caused by that edict from the IRS. Liberty? We allow the illegals to come to Canada, and give them a chance at a new life if there is a good reason for them to leave their homes. I suppose you see that as cowardice.

We choose to fight where there is clear injustice, such as Afghanistan. We chose NOT to fight in what is considered an illegal war, Iraq. When the UN declares that war to be justified, Canadians will be there, not before. The "cowards" who choose not to fight in that illegal conflict find support in Canada for exactly that: they cannot morally support it. I suggest that the "cowards" would be fine fighting in Afghanistan due to its status in NATO and the UN. Personally, I find the war in Afghanistan to be senseless: that country has been under attack for over a thousand years without success: the chances of "winning" are slim to none...

Your friends in Manitoba are welcome to head to the US, but they won't. We have a blowhard here who yells about his rights and freedoms being eroded, but stopped yelling when he had a heart attack and DIDN'T lose his house, and a few of us remind him of this fact any time he starts chirping. Invite your friends down there to live, I think you will find that they are just blowing smoke.