If you're an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENT and you get ARRESTED for DRIVING WITH NO LICENSE by all means, you should get your car back immediately. Lucky for you, you live on Planet Berkely.
Community organizers met with Berkeley city officials to discuss concerns about the Berkeley police seizing cars of undocumented immigrants, which they said had generated fear among some Latino families.
“'The mayor has been continuously opposed to the state law, which says that immigration status is required to get a driver’s license,but we don’t know what local law you could pass that would supersede the state law, except for someone actually changing the state law.”
“'They are really scared because they feel their cars might be taken away when they are picking up their kids from school or coming home from work,' Pulido said. 'And there’s no way they can get a license. So what should they do? Give up driving?' Calls for comment to the Berkeley Police Department were not returned.
"Mark Silverman, an attorney for the Immigration Legal Research Center in San Francisco, said that the police had been towing cars of undocumented immigrants for a long time in Berkeley, but the issue had become a bigger problem in other cities last year where authorities prevented drivers from taking back their seized cars for over a period of 30 days. “We want people to unite and organize and get the City of Berkeley to change their policy.”
Bay Area residents and officials in California have indeed organized and have changed the law so that the illegal can call a friend to come get the car at the time of the arrest.
What if the friend is an illegal immigrant with no license? Why, they'd have quite a conundrum there wouldn't they?
