The road to political trouble

摘要

Why do so many Californian drivers-some 3.4m out of a total of 23m-take to the roads without insurance? One answer is that a great many of them are illegal immigrants, unable to get a driving licence and the car insurance that follows from it. Hence the tricky question about to land on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: will he sign into law the Immigrant Responsibility and Security Act to allow illegally resident foreigners, principally low-paid Latinos, to obtain licences and, with them, a legal right to drive?