Posted on 05/05/2008 2:04:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Sen. John McCain said Monday the tenor of the immigration debate has hurt the way Hispanic voters view the Republican Party.
"I believe the majority of Hispanics share our view that the border must be secured, and the border must be secured first," McCain said in Phoenix, Arizona.
"But they also want us to have an attitude which I think most Americans do, that these are God's children and they must be taken care of."
The senator from Arizona used Cinco de Mayo as a launching pad for a new Spanish-language Web site on Monday, and he emphasized his stance on immigration and border security as he tried to court the Hispanic vote.
Republican strategists have said McCain has to do well with Hispanic voters to win in November. When President Bush was re-elected in 2004, he received 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, but that was before the divisive political debate erupted over illegal immigration.
McCain is seen as a moderate Republican when it comes to immigration reform, but the conservative base of his party has taken a hard-line approach on the issue.
In 2005, McCain angered some in his party when he and Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy unsuccessfully pushed for a comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a path to citizenship.
McCain now says he would focus first on securing the borders before offering other ways to deal with illegal immigration.
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They already married with children.
Liar Liar Pants on Fire!
Demographically speaking, the GOP is dead.
We might win in 2008, and then maybe again in 2012, but shortly thereafter, dysgenic fertility and the demographic collapse of the USA will make it mathematically impossible for the GOP to win any elections.
Prepare accordingly.
Too bad he won’t court some conservatives....
From which side of the border?
McCain finally said something I agree with. I’m in favor of the illegal aliens being “taken care of”. In fact, I would see that they were taken care of by the end of the year, if it were up to me.
No particular nationality should get a special preference.
McCain has to work harder on this to even begin to get it right, otherwise we're simply going to think of him as just another budding caudillo who wants a nation made up of a handful of billionaire RINOs at the top and a vast army of peasant agriculturalists at the bottom.
Send out your daughters; help is on the way!
“McCain on Monday empathized with Hispanics who have been mistreated and said low-income Hispanics are often the first to lose their jobs when someone come to the United States illegally.”
Wow, he must have seen strong polling disproving the white liberal myth of Hispanics for Amnesty—and that “Hispanics” well know the cost of illegal immigration. He could pivot away from comprehensive reform/Amnesty+, but he’s locked in, dislikes the little people, and needs the business/wage depression lobby money.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
1800 Silver, oh what a night it shall be!
Unfortunately, you are correct. Our progeny will become the new ‘transient’ labor after the corruptness of the invading elite implement the same system residing currently in Mexico.
"But they also want us to have an attitude which I think most Americans do, that these are God's children and they must be taken care of."
So John, this is your philosophy of government? It's there to take care of us?
Well, he is a socialist, after all.
Well, we’ve had a compassionate conservative, why not a socialist conservative.
“that these are God’s children and they must be taken care of.”
Not by the government and its handouts. Read your Bible Johnny widows and orphans. Everyone else should be good stewards by working and they can work in their own country and if things are that bad then do what we did in 1776.
The only Hispanics who may vote GOP are those who have businesses here, because they have an investment. The Cubans in Florida are so GOP not just because the Fidel Castro issue, but because they are extremely entrepreneurial. Mexican-Americans are a mixed bag as are most Latin groups. Puerto Ricans, unfortunately have gone the way of identity politics, mostly because they have American citizenship and didn’t have to struggle to get it. I am not saying that Puerto Ricans don’t go into business, but not to the degree other Latino groups have.
I happen to think the best way to take care of them would be to stop providing the safety valve for Mexico to export surplus labor and encourage them to overturn their corrupt system and replace it with an American model.
This worked pretty well in Chile after Allende got his brains splattered out.
Unfortunately, it’s not just white liberals promoting the “Hispanics are for amnesty” myth. I have been told by many people here that “my kind” are “naturally pro-amnesty.” I try telling them that I’m an American first, but that thought doesn’t seem to penetrate their thick skulls.
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