http://www.reuters.com/article/
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:00pm EST
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday dropped a controversial plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in his state because of overwhelming opposition to the proposal."I've concluded that New York state cannot conduct this program on its own," Spitzer, a Democrat, said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "It does not take a stethoscope to hear the pulse of New Yorkers on this topic."Spitzer's plan had sparked a national debate over the extension of certain privileges to illegal immigrants and haunted Democratic presidential front-runner New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. Clinton initially said the idea "makes a lot of sense" but then equivocated (flip-flopped)and left her position vague during an October 30 Democratic debate in Philadelphia, prompting her Democratic and Republican rivals to accuse her of engaging in political double-talk.
After Spitzer's decision, her campaign issued a statement from Clinton saying she supported his move and made it clear she opposed granting licenses to illegal immigrants. (which is it?)"As president, I will not support drivers' licenses for undocumented people and will press for comprehensive immigration reform that deals with all of the issues around illegal immigration including border security and fixing our broken system," (I'll just give them amnesty so they can get licenses) Clinton said. Spitzer said he had come to believe that the proposal eventually would be blocked either by legal challenges or by the New York legislature. He said he still believed his plan would be the best way to secure the roads in a state with an estimated 1 million illegal immigrants, many of whom drive without licenses or insurance. (Deporting illegals will secure the roads)
He also criticized the federal government for failing to resolve the problem and said divisive political rhetoric had won out over efforts to reach a practical solution. (amnesty)"The federal government has lost control of its borders, has allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to enter our country and now has no solution to deal with it," Spitzer said at the news conference, where he was joined by Democratic lawmakers from the state. Efforts at a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws (amnesty) collapsed in the U.S. Congress amid a bitter debate on the future of an estimated 12 million immigrants (illegals) in the United States, many of whom are Hispanic.(we don't care about their race) Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor, and Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, said Spitzer's plan would have made it more difficult for the federal government to enforce immigration laws. "It took long enough to convince him and other open-border Democrats like Senator Clinton that driver's licenses for illegal immigrants was exactly the wrong approach to enforcement, but at least Governor Spitzer finally listened to the American people and common sense," Romney said. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose name has been raised as a possible independent presidential candidate, praised Spitzer for attempting to deal with the problem and criticized Washington's inaction. (this liberal may steal votes from the democrat candidate!)
(Additional reporting by JoAnne Allen, editing by David Alexander and Eric Walsh)
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This was most likely to protect Hillary Clinton for the Democrat Debate tonight. I usually don't watch the Dem debates since all of the candidates are for amnesty or amnesty lite, but this debate might be interesting if the Clinton Campaign hasn't rigged it!
Perhaps Spitzer should have issued the licenses in secret behind the backs of the citizens like the building of the Mexican Consulate in Arkansas. He could create an illegals license center at a New York State Rehab center and have mobile driver's license distributors go around the state. Afterwards, he have secret building project to create a center where illegals can get the licenses and syphon a few thousand tax dollars toward the illegals license center. Then all he has to do is make sure that media outlets give him more airtime than Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo combined and only ask him about his Christian beliefs. Remind you of anybody?
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"of an estimated 12 million immigrants (illegals) in the United States, many of whom are Hispanic.(we don't care about their race)"
That wasn't placed by Reuters for you to feel sympathy, its to inform you, as a news agency, that the majority are Hispanic. And Hispanics is not a race buddy, its an ethnicity.
Ever been to Argentina,Brazil,Mexico, Nicaragua? The people within those nations are different, and just the nations alone are different.
Why do we need to be informed that the majority of illegals are hispanic? Those who support illegal immigration think it's a race, but just for details sake, I'll say that we don't care about their ethnicity either.
People think its a race issue, because the number of hate crimes, hate groups attacking Hispanics, primarily Mexicans of darker skin tones has increased. It should be something you should be worried about. I agree immigration alone should not be used with a race card, but people on both sides are just as guilty. Of course not everyone on each side is guilty of playing the race card. If you asked someone who make up the majoirty of illegal immigrants, the article gave you some facts. Not every word in a article is going to be for one group of people.
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