Spitzer Drops License Plan

Update: Watch this Fox News interview with FAIR president Dan Stein discussing Spitzer's retreat.

"[NY] Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy. The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday, said in an interview Tuesday night that he did not reach the decision easily," the New York Times reports. "But he came to believe the proposal would ultimately be blocked, he said, either by legal challenges, a vote by the Legislature to deny financing for the Department of Motor Vehicles or a refusal by upstate county clerks to carry it out. 'I am not willing to fight to the bitter end on something that will not ultimately be implemented,' the governor said, 'and we also have an enormous agenda on other issues of great importance to New York State that was being stymied by the constant and almost singular focus on this issue.'"

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