Posted on: December 13th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Politics ] [ Election 2008 ]
Tags: Hillary Clinton
NO SUBJECT has discombobulated this year’s presidential debates as much as immigration. Hillary Clinton’s recent fall from grace dates from her refusal to give a straight answer to a question about whether she supports allowing illegal immigrants to have driving licences. On the Republican side, some of the testiest exchanges of the political season have been between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani over illegal immigrants.
Mr Romney accuses Mr Giuliani of running a “sanctuary city” when he was mayor of New York. Mr Giuliani accuses Mr Romney of living in a “sanctuary mansion” because the firm that he employs to do his gardening employs illegals (Mr Romney retorted that he could not be expected to verify the immigration status of everyone with a “funny accent” and later sacked the company). All very childish. But all very telling too.”*
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