Posted on 04/23/2014 4:05:26 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 23, 2014, 06:22 pm McCain says illegal immigrants are 'not going home'
By Rebecca Shabad
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that immigrants living in the United States illegally are not going home, and that the U.S. has no practical way of forcing them to leave.
"They're not going home. And so why don't we give them a path to citizenship," McCain asked at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy Jr. forum.
"There are not enough buses to deport them," he added. "It's de facto amnesty."
The senator, who has pushed for immigration reform, said once Congress passes legislation he believes it will be named after the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Kennedy and McCain had worked on a comprehensive bill in 2005 that eventually made it into a 2007 measure that failed to make it to a Senate vote.
McCain was a member of the "Gang of Eight," a group of senators who helped push an immigration reform bill through the Senate last year. House GOP leaders have refused to take up that version.
The senator emphasized the bill does not provide automatic amnesty.
"It's really tough," he said, adding the process would take years for people's status to change. "If you keep these people in the shadows, it is a stain on America’s honor."
McCain also repeated his previous prediction that "the Republican Party will never win another nationwide election unless we enact comprehensive immigration reform."
Has he formally changed parties yet?
McCain is a stain on American honor.
I’d settle for McCain going home, staying there and shutting up.
Invite them to one of your houses Juan. Let them stay for free, eat your food, take your money, and get back to me.
ohn McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that immigrants living in the United States illegally are not going home, and that the U.S. has no practical way of forcing them to leave.
LIAR..........
Deport McInsane and his Gang of 8.
FReepers could get it done in a fortnight. McAmnesty is refusing to think outside the Shamnesty box.
Help me out here, doesn't each one of these criminaliens have two feet?
If the entitlements are cut off, sanctuary cites/states stopped, employment of any kind shut off, treated with a bandaid at the ER instead of free up-to-the-wazoo healthcare, and all this occurs during recession and high unemployment when there are 300,000 to 350,000 new unemployment claims every week, then feet will do their thing.
They are not going to pay their taxes either. And there is no practical way to get them to pay their taxes. So lets just grant all illegal aliens tax free status during the time they are invading our country and taking jobs from Americans.
In fact let’s just declare them exempt from all our laws.
“Has he formally changed parties yet?”
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What difference would it make? The Repubs are nothing more then Marxist lite. McStain is a perfect example of how the GOP has turned to the dark side, as the “Can’t We All Just Get Along” party.
Seems to me that if they can’t get jobs or handouts at he expense of the taxpayer, they will go home...
Kind of like: If you put out a fresh dish of cat food on your patio every day, why would you not expect every stray cat within 5 miles to prefer your block to others?
I have a friend who buys bird seed in 40 pound bags. Guess what? she has lots of wild birds... (which she likes BTW)
Well, no Senator. Many have decided their “work” here is crime, and your constituents are being murdered. What are you going to do about it?
For the last 40 years, the traitors in DC have done everything they can to replace American voters with Mexicans.
They see their finish line is tantalizingly close.
Let's just stop enforcing laws against bank robbery.
“Going home”?? I thought that the USA was their “home”—can’t have it both ways.
Hey John you slimy scum....why don’t we start deportation proceedings for Americans so that we can make way for the new waves of illegal aliens and votes that you want?
You seem to hate us so much right?
You lost your mind in Vietnam soldier....
Yes, we know they’re not going home. That’s the problem!
Yes, he joined the Bush’s party...
So, McCain admits that the United States is not their Home?
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