Obama's "big risk issue" on immigration

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/28/MNH1UL57Q.DTL&type=politics

On a presidential debate between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, the question of whether illegal immigrants should have a chance of having a driver's license, was clearly declined by Hilary Clinton and as Carolyn Lochhead, author of the article, puts it "Clinton stumbled into that minefield in the debate last fall, and quickly backed off. First she suggested a New York proposal for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants might be reasonable. Then she denied endorsing the idea, and later came out against them". Whereas Obama suggested that non-immigrants should be illegible for a driver's license. And until date Obama still sticks to his decision. This decision has crucial impacts to which most call a "big risk" because they fear that it is wrong to choose provide non-immigrants with driver licenses when he becomes president. Instead, i think the only crucial impact should be greater votes for Obama because by supporting this issue means supporting the issues of immigration more than Hilary Clinton (who is one of his major competitor) who claims to support immigration but rather looks down on the illegal immigrants whose brothers and sisters are probably legal immigrants or citizens and to which she shall later tend to seek her votes.

Well, Barack's big risk is more of what i consider not a risk but a leadership plan. Because, from the unset, unlike Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama never backed down. He has stood for these crucial issues faced by illegal immigrants, usually Latinos. And to stand firm to a decision is a characteristic of a leader. Thus, i support Lochhead when she says Obama's intention is to draw distinctions between himself and Clinton on what are otherwise indistinguishable positions on immigration. Hence, i aspect the greater Latino community in California to stand up for Obama as he is continuously defending his big risk decision as some put it.

To this his big risk decision, Obama goes a step further in making it easier for these illegal immigrants to to become legal immigrants,And to support this we will need to see the importance of immigrants in the US. Firstly, Increased immigration is important for both the economic and spiritual well being of the United States. Immigrants often take jobs which would otherwise go unfilled and increase overall productivity. Empirically, the United States has recently undergone a long period of increased immigration and has an economy which may have it's ups and downs, but is still the envy of the world, with significant immigrant contributions in the prominent high technology sector. Most importantly, let us not forget that these immigrants are people who simply want a better life, just like our parents and grandparents, who all came to the United States in similar situations.

Finally, If helping immigrants (legal or illegal) in their quest for a better life (e.g. the provision of a driver's license for easy transportation) is Obama's (the son of an immigrant) choice, then why should some consider it a "big risk" as if it was a wrong choice he made?
There is nothing to be skeptical about for that is the route of a leader.