Posted on 07/05/2008 12:48:16 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain told Mexican leaders security at the border is a precondition of immigration reform.
McCain ended a visit to Colombia and Mexico Thursday, The Arizona Republic reported.
I believe we must have comprehensive immigration reform. The American people want our borders secured first, McCain said at a Mexico City news conference. That will require some walls. It will require virtual fences. It will require high-technology equipment. We must secure our borders, and then we will address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.
McCain was one of the authors of an immigration reform bill that failed to get any traction in Congress, and caused him to lose support among illegal immigration hard-liners. Since then, he has toughened his stance on the issue.
McCain, accompanied by his wife, Cindy, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, also visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most important Catholic shrine in Mexico.
“McCain tells Mexican leaders to their faces - the border must be secured first.”
Yeah, with a wink and a nod.
After video of the first couple of guys missing the mattress hits the airwaves and the internet, I would almost guarantee that there will be a line of folks begging to be allowed to drive, walk, or hitchhike across the border.
I believe McAmnesty about as much as when Bush said eight years ago that he was going to work on comprehensive immigration reform.
You just can’t admit he isn’t backing down from his pledge of securing the border first.
So you prefer Obama? (I doubt it.) What is your alternative.
Did you read the article? He did exactly what you suggested.
I never said I prefer obama, Mr. elect mccain pinger. I like many, will be holding my nose and my breath at the ballot box and hope he doesn’t kill the US like obama would most certainly do.
He “reportedly” assured Hispanic in a private meeting” This you believe?
And his saying he now wants the borders secure before and immigration reform, you do not believe?
Other then you simply dislike McCain, what evidence have you that one is a lie and the other the truth?
Bottom line is the fence IS being built and the border IS being secured. Illegals are leaving the country because there is a crackdown on employers and the actual influx of illegals has been halved or more by all accounts.
For McCain, the lesson learned is secure the borders first and then grant amnesty to the 12 to 20 million illegals already here who will in turn sponsor another 66 million to 100 million more LEGAL IMMIGRANTS thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification. If that happens, this country is finished. Amnesty is forever.
Congress is putting a halt to it. Chairman Price is holding it up.
Border Fence Construction Not Moving Fast Enough for Rep. Hunter
I haven't heard any McCain condemnation of Price.
Illegals are leaving the country because there is a crackdown on employers and the actual influx of illegals has been halved or more by all accounts.
We are still apprehending about a million people a year at the southern border trying to enter illegally. Another 500,000 to 1 million get through. Attrition thru enforcement works, but again, McCain has been MIA on that strategy. He also voted against making English the official language of this country.
John McCain, Multiculturalist Immigration is just one problem
Do you seriously expect to go from whatever the number of illegals were coming in a year ago to zero immediately?
There is progress and it is substantial
http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=24&num=19915
Now, you are hedging, and parsing.
You stated that the border is secure. You stated the number of illegals entering has been halved.
I contend that having thousands of illegals still flooding across the border does NOT signify a ‘secure border’.
And that is the problem with McCain’s position: what exactly is the definition of a ‘secure border’ and what are the provisions to make it that way? Those are the provisions, means, methods that McCain has never identified. So, by your reasoning, cutting the flood of illegals in half implies that the border is now secure. McCain would love that reasoning. He might make you head of Homeland Security for that.
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Well no, I did NOT state the border was secure. What I said was “the border IS BEING secured”
That is a difference with a distinction, wouldn’t you say?
You think? After promoting the McCain-Kennedy bill in the teeth of the base, and refusing to back down, and still keeping a top member of La Raza on his campaign staff while firing staffers because the Democrats complain about them, he has a lot of explaining to do.
I read his statement and what it seems to say is, “I will build the fence and then give them all amnesty.”
Sorry, but he has a long history on immigration, all of it is bad, and getting even worse in the past year or two.
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