Edwards Pressed on Immigration in Iowa

If Hillary Clinton seemed confused about how to answer a question about illegal immigrants getting driver’s licenses, it may not only have been because she was looking toward the general election.

Even among Democrats, there is grave concern about illegal immigrants in Iowa, a state that is more than more than 95 percent white and 4 percent Hispanic, according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates.

“We have a war going on and we’re paying for hospital care, children in school [for illegal immigrants]?” a woman pointedly asked John Edwards in Williamsburg Iowa over the weekend. When a person in the crowd said they had not heard the question, Edwards said the query was about one woman’s “view” of immigration, suggesting he did not agree with her sentiments. “*

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