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Article: Incentives make it attractive for illegal immigrants [Derived headline]
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- The Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 9, 2007
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Incentives make it attractive for illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON -- When Hillary Clinton fumbled a recent debate question about New York's plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, she helped clarify at least one issue that keeps getting muddied: Illegal immigrants are illegal.
Why, then, are we granting them driver's licenses?
Thus far, eight states allow illegal immigrants to receive licenses or permits (and 10 states offer in-state tuition) -- all in the spirit of making America a better place.
But we don't want to encourage immigrants to come here illegally.
Gotcha.
The illegal immigrant problem is huge, obviously, and there's no single solution. But there is one word that ...