Why does Hillary Clinton only “broadly support” Governor Eliot Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal aliens to get a New York state drivers license? Why does Charles Schumer dodge whether he is for or against the plan yet add, “I am for, at the federal level, Real ID, which doesn’t countenance illegal immigrants” using driver’s licenses “for any purpose at all?”
The answer is in today’s Washington Times:
Voters oppose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds. As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line on benefits for illegal aliens, including opposing driver’s licenses and such taxpayer-funded benefits as scholarships at state colleges for illegal-alien students.
The new poll found 77 percent of the adults surveyed opposed making driver’s licenses available to illegal aliens, while just 16 percent supported the idea.
Licenses fared poorly across party lines, including near-blanket opposition among self-identified Republicans, at 88 percent. Among independents and Democrats, it was still overwhelmingly unpopular, drawing 75 percent and 68 percent opposition, respectively.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in September proposed adding New York to the list of seven states that offer licenses to illegal aliens, and the issue has refused to die down since.
Most Democratic presidential candidates have embraced the policy, including front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing it’s a matter of road safety and a valid response to the federal government’s failure to give a path to citizenship to illegal aliens.
Hillary Clinton will not win the Presidency next year if she continues to support open borders and drivers licenses for illegal aliens.
And someone should ask her if her broad support for Gov. Spitzer’s plan includes his facilitating illegals voting in federal elections. He ordered DMVs to offer a voter registration to all applicants and unblocked the electronic submission of registrants who fail to provide a Social Security number.
So much for Senator Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric about the “rule of law.”