Spitzer Drops Illegal-Immigrant License Proposal

Spitzer said he was giving up because he had concluded that "New York State cannot successfully address this problem on its own." He said he wanted to act because of the failure of the federal government to deal with immigration policy and the impact that failure was having on New York.
"I would suggest to you what everyone already knows, " Spitzer said. "The federal government has lost control of its borders. It has allowed millions of undocumented workers to enter our country and now has no solution to deal with them."
The effect was about 1 million undocumented workers in New York state, "many of whom are driving without licenses," said Spitzer
-Dropped plan after a swirl of controversy
-He recognized the public tolerance was not there
-Hugely unpopular with NY voters
-All this translated into a impossibility to move forward with the plan