And "seemingly contradictory"? I mean, let's be honest. Clinton is the epitome of slippery. This is one of the main reasons I have no respect for her as a leader. It's the same reason I despise Dubya's liberties taken with the English Language. It has to do with truth.

I have great respect for Hillary Clinton in terms of intelligence, stamina, ambition, and even for how she's won over some friends of mine! She must be good at speaking to people, some people. And on a less immediate and more symbolic level, I have great respect for Clinton for what she is accomplishing for women by simply existing as herself on this path she's worked for, showing mijas that this is how it can be. But what lesson is the crown at any cost? I do not have respect for her as far as integrity goes. And maybe "that's how pollatishunz R!" but what we've used for so long ain't working, I think we all can agree. I mean, personally, I honestly wonder if any person who might actually bring true change would be stopped before it could happen. But we certainly can't look the other way when the same ole thing comes along, but in a different cut of suit.

In terms of how we are all speaking and thinking about migrants, my friend Kyle recently said that "the times, they are 'a changin'." (I think I've heard it somewhere else, too.) And it's true, despite Clinton's windsocky allegiance to the pre-election breezes. And it should be. Because we are, each and every one of us, migrants from a family of migrants. Members of the same human family each chasing one or more needs and using some sort of dream to keep us going while we do.

Beyond that, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to issue municipal identification cards to city residents, including those who are there illegally. The cards are seen as a first step toward helping residents open bank accounts, use regional transit and, possibly, to obtain drivers’ licenses.

—Clinton Now Against Licenses for Illegal Immigrants, nytimes.com

But the Grand Ole Prehistoric crew are doing all they can to work against The People on matters such as this.

In addition, House Republicans introduced a measure today to prohibit states from issuing valid driver’s licenses to those in the United States illegally. This is the third major bill so far this session that seeks to discourage states from issuing such licenses and identification to undocumented immigrants. Another would withhold a portion of federal highway funds from states that award a valid I.D. to illegal immigrants; a third expresses a sense of the House that states should not be issuing driver’s licenses to people who are here illegally.

Although the plan is dead in New York, at least for now, the question of licenses is still a burning one and is part of the larger debate over immigration, a lightning-rod issue in the presidential campaign.

—Clinton Now Against Licenses for Illegal Immigrants, nytimes.com

But for Hillary, these matters seem to be settled. At least if we go by the last statement she made! Who knows. Maybe next week she'll be talking about how inhumane prisons for profit are, especially when the pain and abuse that is traded for the coin lands on the heads of migrant women and children. Somehow I don't see it, though.

Mrs. Clinton’s statement, and her vow to focus on border security and “fixing our broken system,” is closer to Republican language than traditional Democratic language and suggests she is looking past the Democratic primaries to the general election.

—Clinton Now Against Licenses for Illegal Immigrants, nytimes.com

Suggests? I'd say it makes things pretty clear. And I'm sure it's an election she's been looking toward for quite a while. At least we know she stands firm on at least one thing.