Hillary Just Can't Help It

She has no political instincts at all. This is not the time to be comparing the Irish immigration to our immigration issues of today. And she places herself on the wrong side of this key issue, to boot.

You can take Hillary out of New York (or Chicago, or Ark) but you can't take the liberal out of Hillary, she falls apart.

WASHINGTON --Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said Wednesday some Republicans are trying to create a "police state" to round up illegal immigrants.

Clinton, D-N.Y., spoke out on the U.S. immigration policy after largely staying away from an issue that has roiled Congress in recent months and spurred a number of conflicting proposals.

Speaking at a rally of Irish immigrants, Clinton criticized a bill the House passed in December that would impose harsher penalties for undocumented workers.

"Don't turn your backs on what made this country great," she said, calling the measure "a rebuke to what America stands for."

Comments

[shonane]

I don't agree with her.

The very name "illegal immigrants" means they are illegal - BREAKING THE LAW! In our country, people are prosecuted for breaking the law and they are put on probation or are locked up if found guilty. We don't give our own citizens this option to break the law.

Over 2 million of our citizens are locked up because they did this, or were acccused of doing it and found guity. Sometimes they didn't really do that much, maybe wrote a few bad checks (know someone who was locked up for this, only a little over $1,000), or got into a mutual fight with someone. Not always huge crimes.

There is a reason the law exists to regulate who comes into our country who is not a citizen. There are legal ways to enter our country and that is the way non citizens need to arrive here.

Otherwise, we need to find the people who are here illegally and then send them to where they came from. Exceptions are refugees and our laws provide for exceptions that will be allowed.

P E R I D !

[MrsLevy]

The spirit of RFK lives on.

You go girl.

MrsLevy

[joeo]

Dan's comments confused me. There are many illegal Irish immigrants here that are working and are concerned that harsher penalties for their employers may lead to unemployment. While I am hardly a fan of Hillary's, she is simply telling the people in front of her what they want to hear. That's politics, right?

[Rick]

Yes, there are illegal Irish, Scots, Brits, Canadians and all sorts of other folks here among us. But altogether not as many as hispanics. I agree though about bringing back RFK and spying on American citizens. Hilary already knows how to misuse FBI files.