Frustrated with the do-nothing attitude of federal officials toward the growing problem of highway deaths caused by illegal aliens, the Georgia legislature is acting on it’s own to allow Georgia law enforcement agencies to seize the vehicles of illegal alien drivers.  From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

A proposal to allow police to seize cars from illegal immigrants prompted an emotional public hearing before a legislative committee Monday.

The bill… would allow police to seize any vehicle involved in a traffic violation or accident if it’s driven by an illegal immigrant. That includes rented and leased vehicles if the owner should have known the driver was an illegal immigrant.

Stacey Malegni, a Cherokee County woman, spoke in favor of the bill, recounting through her tears the loss of her 5-year-old son and mother-in-law in a car accident in 2004. An 18-year-old illegal
Mexican immigrant with no license plowed into the car Malegni’s mother-in-law was driving.

Malegni argued the bill should be passed for safety reasons…

A spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union opposed the bill, saying it would create an atmosphere of “seize first and ask questions later.” It could also create an atmosphere for racial profiling in traffic stops, the spokesman said.

Opponents say the measure is unconstitutional because it doesn’t provide due process for taking the car. Under the proposal, the vehicle seizure would work similar to property seizure in drug cases.

From coast to coast, literally, the slaughter on our highways (here, here, here, here, here, and here) as gone on long enough.

I have something of a personal stake in this since my state representative was one of the bill’s sponsors, and a good friend of mine lost his leg and his career last year when he was hit by an illegal alien driver… who was of course uninsured.