Last month, New York became the 13th state to grant drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants, securing a victory that liberals and open-borders advocates have fought for since Eliot Spitzer was governor.
Democrats should worry about how the debate unfolded in New York: a majority of state voters opposed the bill, including about 40 percent of surveyed Democrats, mainly because the law will confer real benefits on illegal residents, thus rewarding violators of the law.
The question of voter fraud-dismissed as a canard by most on the left-raised alarms when Democrats tried to pass a bill that would have automatically registered all drivers to vote.
In the suburbs, stiff opposition pushed Long Island's Democratic state senators to vote unanimously against the bill.
The dissonance between country-wide polling and the conservative sentiment of deep-blue New York suggests that the national numbers on immigration may reflect the president's unpopularity in particular rather than any fondness for illegal aliens-and that, when Trump is removed from the equation, the political middle on immigration remains significantly to the right of today's Democratic Party.
Unlike New York Democrats, who voted on an unpopular bill, national Democrats believe their leftward shift on immigration mirrors a movement in public opinion.
Though polling has captured real dissatisfaction with the president's approach to immigration, it has little to say about what policies voters would support.
https://www.city-journal.org/illegal-immigrant-drivers-licenses
Democrats should worry about how the debate unfolded in New York: a majority of state voters opposed the bill, including about 40 percent of surveyed Democrats, mainly because the law will confer real benefits on illegal residents, thus rewarding violators of the law.
The question of voter fraud-dismissed as a canard by most on the left-raised alarms when Democrats tried to pass a bill that would have automatically registered all drivers to vote.
In the suburbs, stiff opposition pushed Long Island's Democratic state senators to vote unanimously against the bill.
The dissonance between country-wide polling and the conservative sentiment of deep-blue New York suggests that the national numbers on immigration may reflect the president's unpopularity in particular rather than any fondness for illegal aliens-and that, when Trump is removed from the equation, the political middle on immigration remains significantly to the right of today's Democratic Party.
Unlike New York Democrats, who voted on an unpopular bill, national Democrats believe their leftward shift on immigration mirrors a movement in public opinion.
Though polling has captured real dissatisfaction with the president's approach to immigration, it has little to say about what policies voters would support.
https://www.city-journal.org/illegal-immigrant-drivers-licenses
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