Schumer: use Social Security cards to cut illegal immigration – New York
Tagged: border, chuck schumer, Hillary Clinton, New York, Real IDPosted on: November 5th, 2007
Sen. Charles Schumer sidestepped the heated debate over driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants once again Monday, saying the best way to cut illegal immigration is through Social Security cards.
Schumer and fellow New York Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton have so far avoided endorsing Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to offer three types of licenses: one for crossing the Canadian border, another to board domestic flights and a third for illegal immigrants for driving and identity purposes.
The plan is part of a deal struck with the Department of Homeland Security last month to push through the federal Real ID Act, a law to make driver’s licenses more secure and keep them out of the hands of would-be terrorists. “*
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