Democrats cowed by GOP scare tactics on immigrants - New York

Adriano Espaillat, the state assemblyman from Washington Heights, was touring the storm-ravaged Dominican Republic when he got a telephone call from Gov. Spitzer.

It was late Tuesday and the governor told him that he was abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants in New York State.

After two months of relentless pounding from Senate Republicans and television pundits like Lou Dobbs, and after a firestorm of public opposition against his plan, Spitzer was conceding defeat.”*

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