Sunday, August 28, 2005

TimesDispatch.com | Hispanics find they can't drive with this license

TimesDispatch.com | Hispanics find they can't drive with this license: Hispanics in this area are getting conned by an international driver's license scam. Reading the article, I wondered why they thought they needed it. Legal residences can get driver's licenses. You have the read the entire article to get to the last three paragrpahs:

"Juan Santacoloma, a Hispanic liaison in Chesterfield, said the problem has no easy solution.
'About 90 percent of Hispanics are illegal and cannot obtain a legal driver's license. But they have to work, go to the grocery store and the supermarket,' he said. 'They have to obtain a license. So when they talk to someone who says, 'This is a legal license, you can get it for $300,' they say OK.
'They pay it because they need it.'"

According to the article the Hispanics make up about 5.3% of Virginia's population. If about 90% are illegal, then 4.5% of Virginia's population are illegal aliens and our legal system condones it. I wonder what laws a citizen may break for a $67 fee in Chesterfield and if it would be ignored as they do this one?

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