Spitzer’s license plan runs into anti-immigration fervor – New York
Tagged: New York, New York CityPosted on: October 26th, 2007“Ruben Diaz, the Democratic state senator and Pentecostal minister from the Bronx, calls it the “worst display of racism” he’s seen since his days as a young soldier in South Carolina in 1960.
Sen. Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) claimed the “anti-immigrant hatemongering” gave him flashbacks to the furor over school busing decades ago.
Both men were referring to Monday’s emotional debates in the Senate and Assembly over Gov. Spitzer’s plan to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses.”*
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