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McCain: Focus on illegal immigration hurt GOP's image
KSWT/AP ^ | 5/5/08 | staff

Posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:34 AM PDT by pissant

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the focus on illegal immigration during the Republican primary season harmed his party's image among Hispanics.

Speaking to reporters in Phoenix on Cinco de Mayo, McCain said that Hispanic citizens want America's borders secured and illegal immigrants to be treated humanely.

He says low-income Hispanic citizens are vulnerable to losing their jobs to the lower wages accepted by illegal immigrants.

On the subject of broader immigration policies, McCain says local governments would not have to take on immigration problems had the federal government overhauled the country's immigration policies.

McCain spoke at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport before his flight to North Carolina.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; elections; hispandering; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; mccain; rino; rmsp; twirp
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To: pissant
McCain: Focus on illegal immigration hurt GOP's image

And Bush and McCain's decision to stand with the Mexican government and their illegals, against America, split the Republican Party and continues to do so today.

41 posted on 05/05/2008 11:05:54 AM PDT by RJL
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To: cripplecreek

I honestly don’t think either party really cares ...

Exactly what I have been saying.
They are now pursuing an agenda, and elections are just speed bumps.
so are we.


42 posted on 05/05/2008 11:07:30 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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43 posted on 05/05/2008 11:08:02 AM PDT by maggief
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To: AuntB
Can anybody get the $50.00 an hour or just his friends ? I am so sick of hearing about lettuce every time someone says secure the border , I am thinking of trying arugula , whatever that is .
44 posted on 05/05/2008 11:08:20 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: pissant

And he was right. What he forgot to mention is that the government in Mexico City should move to D.C. Our government is more favorably inclined to govern in the interests of the Mexican national than it is in ours.


45 posted on 05/05/2008 11:08:38 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Who opposes John McCain's leftist agenda? The RNC, Rep Congress members, the Democrats? Good luck!)
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To: All

“What an arrogant pinhead ass.”

My apologies. I meant to say:

“What a crooked, arrogant, pinhead ass.”


46 posted on 05/05/2008 11:09:32 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: pissant

bump


47 posted on 05/05/2008 11:10:20 AM PDT by VOA
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To: bill1952
I honestly don’t think either party really cares ... Exactly what I have been saying. They are now pursuing an agenda, and elections are just speed bumps.

More like a facade to appease the easily led.

I was right thinking years ago the fix was in, and it don't matter a whit about laws or what Americans demand.

48 posted on 05/05/2008 11:11:55 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: bill1952
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49 posted on 05/05/2008 11:14:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: pnh102; AuntB; cripplecreek; Shermy
“The problem is that there is a ring of truth to what McCain is saying. A lot of anti-illegals GOP Senators and Congressmen went down in flames in 2006..”

Arizona's "English Only" referendum got passed without anyone being mad at Republicans:

2006 election
Arizona Proposition 103:
English as Official Language

Yes...No...Full AZ
74%...26%

Yes...No...By race
79%...21%..White
80%...20%..African-American
48%...52%..Latino

50 posted on 05/05/2008 11:15:56 AM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: AuntB

Cmon now, it’s time to “close ranks” behind Juan Macano


51 posted on 05/05/2008 11:17:21 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Well...explain away! I live in a AZ and work in Phoenix, so I’m very close to the immigration problems. What exactly did McCain say in that interview that you found so distubing? Enlighten me. Or do you just hate him so much that you post whatever he says as an opprtunity to call him names?


52 posted on 05/05/2008 11:17:32 AM PDT by HappyinAZ
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To: pissant

The title is incorrect. McCain is a Democrat.

Thank you.


53 posted on 05/05/2008 11:18:35 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the McCainiac population. Have them spayed or neutered.)
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To: HappyinAZ

We aren’t talking about ‘immigration’ problems.


54 posted on 05/05/2008 11:19:30 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: AuntB
I'm no longer calling RINO's like this tird and Schwartzenegger RINO's because they are illegitimate Republicans/conservatives and therefore... Republican/Conservative Bastards!!!

At least the mayor of NYC has outed himself as an actual NON-Republican!!!

I'm voting for Ralph Nader who at least knows what the hell he IS!!! GANG-GREEN!!!

55 posted on 05/05/2008 11:21:47 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Out of the dung of adversity, spring the seeds of opportunity! America will always be exceptional!!!)
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To: maggief

Shouldn’t all those Spanish-speaking descendants of conquistadors and other explorers head on back to Europe too?


56 posted on 05/05/2008 11:21:47 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: notaliberal

Of course he does, what compassionate conservative would be against a bunch of people who have no right to be here from crossing our border? Certainly not John McCain the democrat nominee of the republican party(and he wants us to vote for him)


57 posted on 05/05/2008 11:23:49 AM PDT by calex59
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To: pissant
McMistake!!! "Humanely" doesn't mean complete capitulation of our laws you fool!!! Mexico certainly isn't scoffing at their own laws like you Senator McMistake!!!

What a disappointment the Republican Party has become is such a brief period of time by putting this miserable excuse for a candidate forward!!! I'm not wasting my vote on him!!!

58 posted on 05/05/2008 11:26:17 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Out of the dung of adversity, spring the seeds of opportunity! America will always be exceptional!!!)
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To: pissant

Ok...now I see it! it isnt’ what McCain actually said...that was ok....but rather, it gave you and opportunity to post something by him and then proceed to “flame away”. That’s cool...


59 posted on 05/05/2008 11:29:57 AM PDT by HappyinAZ
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To: AuntB

McAmnesty is really out of touch!!


60 posted on 05/05/2008 11:29:57 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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