Nov 04, 2007 01:01
DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) - At least two people spoke up in front of Hillary Clinton on Saturday in support of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, an issue Clinton said relates to a larger problem "we have to solve." The senator from New York had just finished speaking to a group of Polk County, Iowa, field staff in Des Moines and was getting ready to leave the room when Clinton supporter Lee Jolliffe started yelling over the crowd noise.
"There are two of us here," Jolliffe said, "who have been hit by those unlicensed drivers. It's not a privilege, it’s a protection." Jolliffe was pointing out that drivers who can have licenses are more likely to have insurance.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you," Clinton responded. "I appreciate you raising that because, you know, the federal government has failed. The federal government has failed, and states are trying to figure out what to do."
She continued, "But two people right in this room have been hit, have been hit by people who are here and undocumented."
Ah, "undocumented", the favorite progressive way of referring to illegals. The reason they are "undocumented", Hillary, is because they came to this country illegally and have no right to live here. Therefore, they cannot be given documents showing an adress in the United States. The fact that these people choose to break another set of laws by getting behind the wheel of a car without a license and insurance is no reason to allow them to get licensed and insured. And the reason why the federal government has failed and "states are trying to figure out what to do" is because of people like McCain, Kennedy, Durbin, Giuliani, Kerry, Bush and YOU, who have coddled them at every stage and deliberately tried to implement amnesty instead of confronting the problem at its root.