nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I saw this once again and have seen it a lot in the past. A Mexican, from Mexico, living here on a work visa, gets pulled over for making an illegal u-turn. She has no license to drive. Gets a ticket for the illegal turn and a warning for the lack of DL, and is allowed to drive away without a DL. Goes to court three weeks later and gets the u-turn ticket dropped if she can go three months without another ticket. The judge even says she wouldn't ask her how she got to the court house; says she understands she has things to do.

Really?? Had this been me driving with an expired license and making the same illegal turn, it would have cost me a ton of cash.

This is just wrong.

Kevyn

Where did you witness this? It seems strange as foreign motorists from any of the countries who are party to the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic (Geneva, 1949) or the Convention on the Regulation of Inter-American Motor Vehicle Traffic (Washington, D.C., 1943) who visit the United States as tourists can drive legally using their valid domestic driver's license for a period not to exceed one year from the date of arrival. They may drive either a personal or rental car.

Tourists from countries who are party to the Geneva Convention and the Regulation of Inter-American Motor Vehicle Traffic can also legally drive their own private cars bearing valid license plates/registration tags issued in their native country for a period not to exceed one year from their date of arrival.

Foreign tourists whose country is not among those that are party to the terms of either convention may be required to obtain a driver's license and secure license plates/registration tags upon arrival in the United States (U.S.).

Mexico is a member of the 1943 Convection and thus a driver's license from Mexico should be honored here in the USA as the agreement requires.

TrueAmerican

Ignorant people spew hatred due to their lack of understanding facts !!!!!!

Iliamna1

Kevyn, you are sooo ignorant about what's going on here in the old USA.
It is VERY COMMON for i*****l a***ns to drive without any identification, without a driver's license ( USA or another nation's), without proof of insurance (because they don't have any) and without a green card.
I personally know several people in Texas who were in auto accidents involving i******s (one was a drunk driver and more on that later). It matters not one iota what the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic (Geneva, 1949) or the Convention on the Regulation of Inter-American Motor Vehicle Traffic (Washington, D.C., 1943) that states people who visit the United States as tourists can drive legally using their valid domestic driver's license, because MANY of these people don't have one!
Back in 2005, I was rear ended at a stop sign in Round Rock, Texas, by an illegal. He had no insurance, license or ID. The police let him go SCOT FREE!! If I had hit someone and was unlicensed or uninsured, they'd have rightly hauled my butt to jail. I******s are routinely set free. Why I do not know.
And they drink and drive at much higher rates than American citizens do. And once in a wreck, they'll often leave the scene. All Mr Garcia has to do is change his name to Mr Hernandez and swap license plates with some car parked and not too well guarded and he's home free. I don't know anyone in Texas who would drive without 'no-fault' insurance. And the American citizens get to pick up the tab for all this. This includes you, too. I understand the facts really well. When it comes to driving on American roads i******s have more rights than American citizens.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

This was in Texas near Dallas to be specific. It is true story and I have witnessed similar many, many times. This girl is a Mexican citizen living here with her illegal parents but she has a work visa. No drivers license at all. She's been here since she was a teen. She's now 24 yoa.

I could actually name three Hispanic young ladies, all without DL's, who have been pulled over and allowed to drive off. I know of two who also have no insurance on their cars, a requirement in Texas to drive a vehicle, who were let off and allowed to drive away without both DL and insurance.

I am not familiar with the agreements with other countries in this regard but I think allowing someone to drive away without a DL is wrong. The law in Texas is that if there is no insurance on the vehicle, it must be towed away.

Kevyn

I find it difficult to believe that you were rear ended by a drunk Mexican and the Texas cops didn’t arrest or ticket him and just sent him on his way. The police in Texas are hardly known for coddling Hispanics and cracking down on white people.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

This is extremely common and continues to baffle me. If we don't deal with it then the laws will never be obeyed.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Kevy, you just don't know the t***h. Just like the non-emergency at the border. The ones there say it is absolutely an emergency. Just like those of us who live in the southern states know the estimated number of i******s is actually much higher than is revealed.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Believe it or don't. I will say that usually if the driver is drunk, they will be taken in, assuming they haven't simply run away.

Iliamna1

The driver that rear-ended MY car was not drunk, and they DID just let him drive off. I have a friend who was t-boned by a drunk illegal Mexican driver. Fortunately, she had no-fault insurance as the i***t left the scene before the Austin, Tex police arrived. Fortunately, he struck her car on the passenger side and she wasn't injured.

You REALLY don't want to believe there is a problem with unlicensed alien drivers, do you?:

maryjane

Your facts are interesting but irrelevant, because we both know the type persons he is describing are certainly not tourists in the US from Mexico, so, please, let's not not do this.