Can we trust GOP presidential nominee John McCain on immigration? The pundits and the media are telling us that he shares Democratic nomiee Barack Obama’s views on immigration. But is that really true – and will the Republican Party allow McCain to do ANYTHING to help immigrants?
Here is what Obama has to say about McCain and immigration, according to the L.A. Times:
“When he was running for his party’s nomination, he walked away from that commitment,” Obama said. “He said that he wouldn’t even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote.”
Obama, also calling for securing the borders, called for bringing “12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows” and putting them on a pathway to citizenship after paying a fine, learning English and going to the “back of the line.
I am confident that Obama will do something to help those who are here and who want to become legal residents of this country. I have NO confidence that McCain will do anything to help them. Even if he wanted to his party won’t let him. This is one of the reasons I expect Obama to become our next President. I don’t see McCain getting more than ten to fifteen percent of the Latino vote. We learned our lesson with Bush – I doubt Latino voters will err again with McCain.
illegal. immigrants . not immigrants . is the concern here .. mccain is a closet open border supporter , obama wants open borders . so the u.s.a . loses here .
In a word….no!
Obama seems to be advocating a version of the McCain-Feingold measure, corrected with the same ‘back of the line’ rhetoric that Republicans use (question: what line are they talking about?). Obama has been in the Senate a while. What proposal has he ever drafted or co-sponsored?
Latinos should vote for McCain because Obama is a tax-borrow-and-spend liberal Democrat who wants socialized medicine, and McCain is more of an advocate of free markets and responsible government. That benefits everyone, regardless of ethnicity.
Not only are the two candidates’ positions on immigration close (reasonably centrist and humane, as opposed to crypto-racist), Debbie Cook is much closer to McCain on this than the insanely anti-immigrant demagogue Rohrabacher. Just sayin’…………….
(not everyone needs to be original on everything, all politicians have their own areas of expertise, we know McCain worked on this issue a long time [even if he’s flipflopping on it a bit for the election…]}
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