Escondido Police Drivers' License Checkpoints

Kudos to the Escondido California Police Department on their use of Drivers' License checkpoints to curb unlicensed and unregistered, uninsured vehicles on the streets of their city. It appears to be a legal, effective way to help rid the streets of drivers who pay no attention to the law, and who fail to obtain licenses, operate outdated or unregistered vehicles or who have no insurance or insurance that has lapsed. They don't randomly stop vehicles; when they set up a checkpoint, they stop every vehicle passing through.

However, this upsets some of the Hispanic community, including one activist named Bill Flores, who always seems to be able to be a mouthpiece when trouble can be brewed over anything that could remotely be labeled Hispanic, Mexican or Latino, regardless of why or how. Especially if you add the word ILLEGAL in front of any of the above.

It seems that many of the drivers being caught in this "overzealous" dragnet by the Escondido Police are Illegal Alien Mexicans. Those who have entered this country ILLEGALLY, who have no right to be here, who have no right to be driving a car, who have no insurance since they can't legally drive nor register a vehicle and who should not be in America. Yet, their apprehension in these completely legal checkpoints angers Flores to no end, who accuses the police of racism, and of picking on the poor illegal alien Mexicans.

Flores states that all the illegals don't impact healthcare and states that Palomar Hospital was accredited this year. Good God, Flores, get your head out of your butt! Sure it was accredited as all the hospitals are! The standard of care everyone is concerned about is waiting in the ER and halls for help while the staff is overwhelmed providing free services to all the illegals and non-payers who come through the doors every day and night. Your chance of dying while a bed is taken up by an illegal with a non-emergency issue increases with the glut of illegals who use the Emergency Rooms as their own after hours doctors offices, knowing the care is free! This applies to Tri-City and most other hospitals as well. Flores doesn't say anything about the billions in healthcare shortages suffered in California every year as a result of the illegals; he's all for giving them everything free. I'd bet if he had a healthcare emergency and had to wait in the back of a paramedic van, or in the hallway of the ER because it was so crowded, that he might get a better picture. But maybe not. What would he then yell...get all the paying white, black, asian, etc. patients out? Naah, that would be racist!

People who want to give it all away should do just that. Give the illegals their credit cards, wallets, money, bank account, ATM and PIN numbers, cars and houses and have nothing. It should make them feel better that they have done their best to assuage the evil injustices done when people break Federal laws and then somehow get caught and deported.

They remind me of the Hollywood stars and Al Gore who want everyone else to go green, while their houses use more electricity in a week than yours does in a whole year! Flores sends out more hot air than the entire New Mexico balloon races to defend people who have absolutely no right to be here in the first place. Illegal is illegal. Period.

And, if the word illegal is offensive, too damn bad. My answer to that is:

"To call an illegal alien an undocumented worker is tantamount to calling a drug dealer an undocumented pharmacist!"

It just don't cut it!