Just sent my way by the Rudy campaign:
MIKE GALLAGHER: “Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has again changed her position apparently on whether she supports granting driver’s licenses to illegals. Yesterday she said now it depends on the state.” MAYOR GIULIANI: “Hillary, welcome to the Federalist Society. … I mean, I have never heard Hillary ever express a position about you know states’ discretion, federalism and she happens to pick the one area that is actually a core responsibility of the federal government. If there [is] one area in which–look, you want to talk about voting, you want to talk about guns, you talk to about things like that, federalism, you know, is there and it’s a very important part of it. But this is a core responsibility of federal government, preventing illegal immigration, securing our borders. …”
Perhaps even more interestingly, Giuliani’s trying to get his allies to introduce federal legislation on this issue.
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GALLAGHER: I mean Mayor, I’ve got to read for our listeners exactly what she said. … Here’s the quote. Her answer, and I quote, ‘It depends upon what state they’re in. It depends upon what they think the risks are. A governor of New York that has a lot of immigrants, many of whom we know are not there legally, has to worry about security. A governor of another state where that’s not a problem doesn’t.’ So you know it’s state to state. It’s going—let’s just flip a coin, you know?”
MAYOR GIULIANI: “And who ever said that immigration is a core responsibility of a governor, a state legislature? It’s the federal government. I called Pete King and Pete Sessions today, who are two friends of mine in Congress and supporters of mine, and I asked them to consider introducing legislation that would basically prohibit a state from giving a driver’s license or an official identification of any kind to an illegal immigrant. And it seems to me that they’re relying on a loophole in the legislation that was passed a year or so ago regarding identification and they’re saying ‘Oh you know, if they don’t want to have a REAL ID they can give out any form of identification they want.’ This would totally obstruct the enforcement of the federal immigration laws.”






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