Clinton: People Trying to “score political points” on immigration
EmailABC News’ Eloise Harper reports: Clinton was asked about the controversial topic of immigration reform at a school gym in Nashua, NH.
“This is going to be a hot political issue – it already is – and if you try to be in any way thoughtful about it you know ‘are you for it’ – ‘are you against it’ – it’s usually an inadequate response. You know people are going to try to score political points – but remember we didn’t get comprehensive immigration reform. Nothing has changed,”Clinton said.
Senator Clinton has been receiving some criticism for not giving a yes or no answer on the question asking if she supports illegal immigrants having driver’s licenses. When asked in an interview yesterday if “Clinton agrees about giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses” – Clinton said “No. What I have said that I support what governors are trying to do. And governors are on the front lines because of the failures to get compressive immigration reform.”
Clinton, spoke to that criticism on Wednesday, implying that a yes or no answer to this complex issue is not adequate – and those who are asking for those answers are trying to score political points.
The Senator, not mentioning her more conservative rivals by name, also said “you will hear politicians and you’ll hear commentators demagogue-ing this issue scoring points on this issue saying lets deport lets round them up lets send them back. I just want you to think about that" Clinton told the audience."
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If this lady doesn’t get her head out of the sand where immigration is concerned it is going to be the rock around her neck that drowns her come election time! The majority in this country are sick and tired of politicians who waffle on this issue. The majority is clear – stop encouraging illegal immigration by giving no benefits of any kind, punish employers who use them, keep up the raids to identify them and discourage them from coming back once they are deported. What’s not to understand on this issue?? “Illegal” is not a “complicated” word and the response does not call for reform, it calls for a backbone!
Posted by: chuck | November 8, 2007, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
I look for comprehensive immigration reform — not for a new wedge issue to supplant the other visceral issues of abortion, gay marriage, or the long-ago Willie Horton dreadful diversion. What I would like to see is leadership moderating a national conversation. What do we think America should be, look like, and do? How do we get there? Do the old quota numbers from various countries reflect what is needed today or do they reflect the 1920s? It would seem that a genuine presidential commission — representing the many human, business, labor, educational sectors of our country– should be convened after the intensity of the 2008 campaign to help the new president build a comprehensive plan. The commission should be given a national charge with a timetable, perhaps convened by and with the new president, and it should proceed in a manner as open as possible. Thats not dreaming. Thinking back to much earlier days, such a complex issue merits that kind of attention and process. What it does not need is a continuation of a divisive going-nowhere, “so’s your mother” schoolyard namecalling fest.
As for me, I think of my grandparents –Polish on the one side and something like Slovenian on the other — and recall what I heard of their struggles, and almost cry when I think of all their offspring. The grandparents only learned smatterings of English in their day, but their children learned more and sent their children to college. Our family is a microcosm of what America has always been: Opportunity, education, freedom, hope. Senator Clinton is right. Lets get away from gotcha, because it doesn’t really get any of us anything. We’ve had a circular binge of fear-hatred in recent years. The result for most people is a sense of sourness. Isn’t it about time that we return to being the America of promise and hope! Chris
Posted by: christine phillips | November 8, 2007, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Christine, thank you for just what this country does NOT need at this point, a far left leaning, let’s all kiss and remember our roots, plea for acceptance of law breakers who stand in our streets and wave their country’s flag in open defiance of our laws while making “demands” that in substance say “So what! I got here illegally but you better give us what we want because we are “entitled” to special treatment over and above those idiots who have stood in line to enter your country legally”! While I am sure that your post will be considered an example of “the voice of reason” please give us a “reason” why people who have broken our laws in a country that constantly points to “the rule of law” as a brick in our foundation are due special consideration . It is a failure of our Government to enforce the laws of the land which has brought us to this place and it is time to correct that shortcoming, not compound it with wishy washy non-solutions.
Posted by: chuck | November 8, 2007, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm