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No one who is against illegal immigration in AZ should vote for McCain if he can’t say that he fully supports the bill. What annoys me about McCain is his claim now and during the 2008 election primary that he never supported amnesty, and that he viewed illegal immigration as only a national security issue. He said things like, anything less than deporting them is considered amnesty, and no one could think that we could round up 12+ million people and deport them. He did support amnesty, because Jeff Sessions had an amendment that asked for those who had been flagged for deportation by judges to be deported, and McCain along with the rest of them voted against this. McCain used the same tactics with the immigration bill that Obama used with health care. He shut out the opposition from the discussions, and I think they negotiated with La Raza. McCain wanted to ram this through just like Obama did with health care. With health care Obama said that it’s either this or the status quo, and McCain said the same with the immigration bill. McCain criticized Obama for not listening to the American people with health care, yet during the immigration debate, McCain said that he wasn’t going to take a position based on a majority opposing him. He never cared about border security after 9/11, and is only doing this now, because he’s facing JD Hayworth. After the amnesty bill failed, he didn’t do anything to get the fence built, even though he pretended during the immigration debate of 2007 that he was disappointed that only a few miles had been built. With the 2007 immigration bill, McCain kept saying that the illegals would be required to go back to their country of origin in order to get to the back of the line. How could they get the illegals to go back to Mexico for citizenship, but not deport be able to them? None of his strict proposals would have been enforced. It would have been amnesty. Tom Tancredo would not have been disliked by McCain if McCain was the way he is campaigning now.