Experience showed her Sarto's wrong
In reply to Bill Sarto's Aug. 30 letter, it is readily apparent that he has never been involved in an accident with a driver who has no license or auto insurance.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you the costs I have had to bear, in the thousands of dollars, to repair my vehicles, and then suffer the cost of increased insurance premiums, because I had to file a claim due to an uninsured motorist.
Whether the status of the driver is legal or illegal, the bottom line is that I follow the laws of Illinois that require me to have auto insurance. If another is on the road without it, then why should they just be allowed to pick up their vehicle and go on their merry way and risk damage and injury to other motorists?
The notion that we should give driver's licenses to everyone in the state is not a solution, nor should lawbreakers I consider economic terrorists be allowed to just drop into any secretary of state's office and gain this most important piece of identification. Nor would it guarantee that these lawbreakers obtain the required insurance.
It is grossly apparent that the federal government is incapable of doing its job. Thus, it falls to the states to protect their legal residents.
No licenses to lawbreakers who flout our immigration laws. And yes, the harshest possible punishment to those who broke the law to come here, but then drive around without insurance and wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens.
Perhaps if we stop coddling these lawbreakers, they will return from where they came.
Cindy Bandur
Island Lake