Talk about obnoxious...

[Occhidiangela]

While you make some good points, Occhi, you raise some further questions, at least for this observer.
1)  What is Uninsured Motorist coverage?   And how, exactly, is it relevant to the issue of illegal immigration?   i.e.   Can you point to some (*grins*) more figures that would give a realistic proportion of the uninsured drivers who are illegal immigrants?   I have a hard time swallowing your implication that it is close to a 1:1 ratio.

2)  What about those employers who do need and hire 'minimum wage' workers and do the wink and nod at the SS number provided and the name thereon?   I suspect there are more than a small number of them too.
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Shadow:

Minimum wage workers are not exclusively illegals.

Do you understand how big the lie is in the press on this matter? The meme that keeps on getting spread, the lie, is

Lie Number 1. "It is only illegals who will "do the jobs Americans won't do." That is crap. Legal immigrants, and legal citizens have been doing them for years. Hard working, salt of the earth people. People like my grandfather. People like me when I was in high school.

Lie number 2. "Where do you get the minimum wage workers."

Where you have always gotten them. You don't need an illegal to hire someone at minimum wage. If the labor market gets tight, you might have to pay above the minimum wage. What a concept! :blink:

Note: Uninsured motorists coverage is a fee insured motorists pay so that when an uninsured motorist, who is breaking the law by not being insured but who hasn't been caught yet, hits your car, you are "covered." If you are hit by an uninsured motorist, and you have not paid that fee, you are screwed as your insurance company is not bound to pay.

When is the last time the cops did a sweep/roadblock to check for insurance? And impounded uninsured vehicles?

Down here, not since 2002.

In South Texas, the uninsured motorist is estimated to be between 10% and 30% of the drivers, depends on who you want to believe> Illeals are often in that category when apprehended by police. Not all uninsured motorists are illegal aliens: some are simply scofflaws who let their insurance lapse due to inertia, or lack of a sound budget, or because it dug into their beer money.

Occhi