Illegals face arrest if found driving

Carolyn Hileman* | February 6, 2007

It was Monday morning, and Juan Herrera was doing what he always did on Monday mornings: driving to work. But on Oct. 2, at 8:25 a.m., New Orleans police officer David Finneman spied what he believed to be an expired license tag on Herrera’s 1990 Buick Century. He put on his cruiser’s blue lights and pulled Herrera over near the corner of Palmyra Street and North Carrollton Avenue. In the end, Finneman arrested Herrera not just for an expired license tag but also for driving a motor vehicle without valid immigration documents, a violation of state law. The law was enacted in 2002, not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, to prevent “terrorism on the highways,” according to its author, state Sen. James David Cain, R-Dry Creek.

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