Our view on immigration: Licenses, in-state tuition for illegal immigrants? - With Washington immobile, states choose pragmatism over nativism. - USATODAY

It was Sen. Hillary Clinton’s turn to squirm when she was asked at last week’s Democratic presidential debate whether she supports her home-state governor’s plan to issue drivers’ licenses to undocumented residents.

Clinton’s equivocal answer — that Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposal “makes a lot of sense,” but “I did not say it should be done” — was not one of her finer moments.

But it was emblematic of the schizophrenic approach to immigration that’s emerged in the four months since Congress’ pitiful failure to pass a new immigration law.”*

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