“Immigration a sticky issue for Clinton, Democrats”
Indeed it is!
Hillary Clinton’s tangle with the immigration issue this week is likely to present itself again this presidential campaign, as she and other Democrats toe a difficult line on the issue that divides potential supporters.
But in the meantime, a host of problems associated with illegal immigration continue to worsen, according to some members of a University of Pennsylvania panel on immigration at the National Press Club today.
“The American political system is gridlocked on this issue,” said Rogers Smith, moderator of the seminar and a professor of political science at Penn. “There’s no consensus on change. The problems associated with immigration – health care, housing, economic security – all those are continuing to get worse.”
The challenge for Democrats is that many Latino and civil rights leaders lean against drastic reform measures, while some potential Democratic voters are worried about the economic and cultural impact of immigration and want to see some kind of crackdown.
Clinton highlighted the dilemma in Tuesday’s presidential debate, when she seemed to both support and differ with a New York plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
If the Republicans ran to the right on this issue and the war, along with government spending and taxes, Hillary’s! political career would be relegated to lackluster Senator. Let’s see if they can do it.
— The Ace