Hillary On The Fence
I care for the health and strength of the left, and for this reason, i don’t understand the investment of the Dems in Hillary Clinton. She’s not that strong of a leader, nor much of a representative. Sure she’s good for a "you shmuck" head shake during a televised State of the Union, but where is she on everything else? A day late and a couple trillion dollars short:
Apart from a well-chosen warning about criminalizing Jesus, Sen. Hillary Clinton hasn’t waded too deeply into the details of the immigration mess. Until now.
In an interview Friday, she cited specific goals that could, and hopefully will, become the heart of bipartisan legislation that might actually fix this national crisis.A fence or a wall? She’s for it.
A two-step process, where our borders are secured before the 11 million illegal immigrants already here begin to get legalized? She’s for that, too.
The sudden crackdown by Washington on employers who hire illegal immigrants? She welcomes it.
The work and school boycott advocacy groups are planning for May 1? She’s against it.
And she said she favors a "carrot-and-stick" approach with Mexico to provide that government and its "oligarchs" the incentives to give Mexicans more and better jobs in their own country.
"A country that cannot control its borders is failing at one of its fundamental obligations," she said of America’s "broken system." She also said that "we do need an earned path to citizenship" for illegal immigrants here.
Because she is effectively embracing both conservative and liberal goals, and because she attaches a caveat to each, she will be accused of Clintonesque parsing and wanting it both ways. She may well be guilty, but, on the basis of two conversations with her, I’m persuaded she believes in both border security and firm, practical measures to deal with those already here.
Sure I don’t expect any moderate Dems to really champion illegal immigration, but they could be taking this time to define themselves against the right back-lash to the protests and really reach out to those citizens in the minority with friends and family here illegally. If nothing else, then those votes from legalized immigrants would go to the party that was most sympathetic to their cause.
This has been Andy D.
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