Clintons position on license for illegals

Where the policy has advanced, perhaps unsurprisingly, is in states with large Hispanic populations, including Colorado and California.

Jessie Ulibarri D , who championed the driver's license law that went into effect last year. It's not just the pressure of Hispanic voters that has moved these policies forward. Law enforcement officers have urged politicians to approve driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. They and others recognize that licenses improve access to insurance and make people more comfortable reporting accidents and other issues to police, according to Tanya Broder, who has tracked driver's license access in her work for the National Immigration Law Center.

There are less obvious benefits, too. California has seen a significant increase in registered organ donors this year, which officials have attributed to the new driver's license law. Opponents of the laws, however, are skeptical about how much good they do and critical of the notion that people in the country illegally should be allowed state-authorized benefits. Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, questioned why supporters of driver's licenses consider it a positive that licenses help undocumented immigrants get to work, since undocumented immigrants aren't legally authorized to hold jobs.

He said the licenses could aid people in establishing false identities. Even in states that permit driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, there are still plenty of lawmakers who disagree with the policy. The Republican-led New Mexico House of Representatives voted in February to repeal the law authorizing the licenses. That bill is likely to die in the Democrat-controlled state Senate.

Colorado Republicans, meanwhile, slashed funding for the program earlier this year, forcing all but one of the original five offices that were distributing the licenses to shut down.

At the end of March, the state Senate approved additional funding , although only for three offices. Estrella Ruiz, who volunteers with the Hispanic Affairs Project in Grand Junction, Colorado, said that the collective effect of Republican efforts is that undocumented immigrants have to endure longer wait times to get their license. It was already an lengthy process, beginning with the difficulties of setting up an appointment, she said.

Illinois, which began offering driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants in , has also had problems with long wait times, said Fred Tsao, policy director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Spitzer met with New York lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday, and conceded that there was too much public opposition to his plan. Clinton did not attend the meeting. The Democratic governor introduced the plan two months ago with the goal of increased security, safer roads and an opportunity to bring immigrants "out of the shadows.

The decision is another example of the roadblocks high-profile immigration reforms have faced this year. Less than five months ago, Congress failed to pass legislation that would legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants and fortify the border with Mexico.

She was for it before she was against it, before she was for it, before she was against it. Spitzer met with New York lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday, and conceded that there was too much public opposition to his plan. Clinton did not attend the meeting. The Democratic governor introduced the plan two months ago with the goal of increased security, safer roads and an opportunity to bring immigrants "out of the shadows.

No…I must wait and watch as others take the fall — then I, Hillary Clinton, President, can step out the shadows and claim the most popular position as my very own! She lacks character. Stick to a position and defend it and explain yourself clearly. She should be embarrassed as this is pathetic. She seems to change her mind based on polls, on what will be the best stance for the general election, and on what she can get away with in the primary. America wants a change but Clinton is vulnerable in the general election because she is such a divisive figure.

Barack Obama is much more likely to unite the country to address the problems we face. Sometimes a person can be of two minds about a subject.

Not all of see the world in black and white. There are gray areas. Please, madam, her answers are as straigtforword as your statements, and who has got what mileage from what? The polls continue to befriend Hillary overwhelmingly. So where, madam, whence your conclusions about beneficial mileage?

What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problems. We have failed. And George Bush has failed. Do I think this is the best thing for any governor to do?

But do I understand the sense of real desperation, trying to get a handle on this? We want people to come out of the shadows. We should have passed immigration reform.

Merely, she supports the lengths to which her governor is having to go to get a handle on a majorly problematic issue — one which this administration has failed miserably to address.

Thank God. Now I can. We welcome all legal immigrants, of all colors. I guess I am a little perplexed by this term flip-flopping and this issue altogether.