RUSH: Senator Clinton in Miami ?aligned herself directly with President Bush on the issue of immigration, using a campaign stop in South Florida to highlight a rare point of agreement with an administration that she criticizes at every turn. Speaking to about 300 community leaders in an area with a large immigrant population, Mrs. Clinton staked out a centrist position on the hot-button topic, saying she supported a ?pathway to legalization? for the nation’s 11 million to 12 million estimated undocumented immigrants, but only if they waited in line and paid fines. She described her stance as ?basically? what the president has proposed.?
Now, I wonder what the left is going to have to say about that. They hate anybody in the Democrat Party agreeing with George Bush on anything. And the San Francisco Chronicle has a story, ?Immigrant advocates blast raids, crackdown — City officials stand by pledge to give sanctuary to illegals. Bay Area immigrant-rights groups denounced the arrests of illegal immigrants in the region and called for immigration reforms Wednesday, while San Francisco officials reiterated the city’s long-standing pledge to give sanctuary to immigrants. Leaders of the groups, assembled at a news conference at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco, called for an end to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdown, which has resulted in the arrests of 13,000 people nationwide,? blah, blah, blah.