Douglas MacKinnon thinks it has. He writes in Townhall.com that the public is outraged over the idea of amnesty for illegal immigration, and Hillary’s support of driver’s licenses shows the Democrats support open borders:

With a year to go before the election, it seems as if the entire United States has suddenly woken up to the growing threat posed by illegal aliens streaming across our borders. Not the least of which of those waking up being moderate Democrats and independents. As evidenced by the 72% of New Yorkers who are against Spitzer’s – and now Hillary’s – plan.

City after city, county after county, and state after state, are finally listening to the impassioned pleas of their citizens to forcefully deal with this problem. Talk about incredibly bad news and bad timing for the Democrats.

No matter the Republican or Democratic nominees for president, two things have been made crystal clear to the voters. The Republican will be strongly against amnesty for illegal aliens, while the Democrat will strongly favor amnesty and a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally.

I think he is forgetting one thing: there is a Republican sitting in the executive chair. President Bush doesn’t need anything else from Congress to secure the border. All he needs to do is send the military to the southern border and lock it down. But he hasn’t. Some claim it’s because of a globalist agenda to merge Canada and Mexico with America in a North American Union. I wonder if it isn’t because of the growing Hispanic voter demographic. Perhaps Bush is more concerned with securing the vote for Republicans than he is with securing the border for all Americans. Either way, the Democratic candidate has only to mention this fact, and it lessens the stigma.