Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Washington Post has video of part of the immigration exchange between Clinton and Obama at tonight's Democratic debate. Obama at one point seemed to say that raising concerns about the "undocumented" displacing or driving down the wages of the native-born or legal immigrants is "scapegoating"; Clinton thinks that there are some economic implications for "illegal immigration." Hot Air has more about the debate over drivers licenses for the "undocumented."

UPDATE: Scapegoating Then?: Mickey Kaus points out that Obama used (in 2006) to assert that a massive influx of the "undocumented" drove down the wages of some; he thinks there might be electoral reasons to avoid saying this now....