Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

I joust at the same time that several Latin groups were announcing that they were reinforcing his efforts to urge more Latin Americans whom they were registering to vote in the important elections of 2008, in the outskirts of the Congress a cowardice act was carried out with big drum and saucer. The governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, traveled from the Big Apple to be parked facing a collection of microphones and cameras to announce that he was beginning for behind and was not going to continue with a proposal to give driver's license driver's licenses to undocumented drivers.

Spitzer had announced several weeks ago that it had intentions of implementing the proposal for safety reasons. He wanted no to have the people in the state of New York handling without insurance of motorcar and without license. It would be a difficult decision, he said, but it was doing it thinking about the well-being of the state and his residents. But, as they say in my people, so that it was that. There armed itself a row of such a level that even affected the presidential candidates. They had asked senator Hillary Clinton if it was supporting the Spitzer proposal. First he said that yes, then that it was not sure, and finally, when Spitzer said that it would leave the proposal, it expressed that it was agreeing with the governor. Or, always not, when he had said firstly that yes, or perhaps. Or everything opposite. Or who knows.“ As the president I will not support driver's licenses for undocumented persons”, affirmed the senator in a bulletin, saying as well as it will lobby so that finally there is approved an integral migratory reform that is going to fight with “all these topics”.

Clinton, like several legislators, said that this collapse of the proposal of Spitzer owes to the absence of action on the part of the Congress that has not done anything on the matter of the immigration. Certainly the Congress has not done anything on immigration, but that has not anything in common at all with the insecurity that he feels some governor Spitzer and other politicians before the antiimmigrant fury that at present we live in this country. Spitzer preferred to throw aside the safety that it was promulgating on having presented initially the proposal, to like to the racist elements and ultra conservatives of the country. And obviously there is absolutely no doubt that these persons who drive already without license and without insurance, will keep on doing it.

On the other hand, Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and also presidential candidate, has passed defending his taken decision a few years ago of giving driver's license driver's licenses to the undocumented persons in his state. “I understand that it is not a popular decision, but sometimes one has to take decisions that are not the most popular because it is the correct thing”, he said, adding simultaneously that the accidents quantity in his state has gone down while the number of persons increases with car insurance.