The Immigration Question that Lester Holt Should Ask at the Presidential Debate
Lester Holt will moderate tonight’s Donald Trump/Hillary Clinton Presidential Debate. There has been exciting build-up with some trash talking about inviting Gennifer Flowers, who years ago allegedly had a relationship with Bill Clinton, in response to the Clinton campaign’s invitation to businessman Mark Cuban to attend the debate.
Patrick Gleason in Forbes opines that Lester Holt or a moderator of one of the other two debates would do well to ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump where they stand on Utah’s state guest working program law, which has been awaiting a waiver from the White House for five years. Responding to federal inaction on immigration reform, Utah state legislators passed a bill in 2011 creating a state guest worker permit program. It runs against conventional wisdom, and may surprise many living on the coasts that a conservative state would pass such a bold and historic immigration reform measure.
More generally, one might wonder what the candidates think about the various state laws dealing with immigration, such as the Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina immigration enforcement laws, or the increasing numbers of states allowing undocumented immigrants to be eligible for driver’s licenses, pay in-state fees at public universities, and like measures.
KJ