Gillibrand Reverses Position on Drivers’ Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
2020 Dem hopeful says 'we have to make it possible for people to provide for their families'
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) no longer opposes giving drivers' licenses to undocumented immigrants.
"I think we have to make it possible for people to provide for their families," Gillibrand told the New York Daily News on Wednesday outside a diner in Brunswick, New York. "We need comprehensive immigration reform. Without doing that, you’re not going to get the problem solved for the rest of the country."
Gillibrand formerly opposed then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial 2007 proposal to give drivers' licenses to undocumented immigrants.
"I do not support giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants," Gillibrand said in a 2007 statement, the Syracuse Post Star reported. At the time, Gillibrand said she supported legislation that required anyone seeking a drivers' license to show proof of citizenship first.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/gillibrand-reverses-position-on-drivers-licenses-for-undocumented-immigrants/