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Posted on 07/18/2009 1:22:19 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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McCain said the presence of the Guard will not only help prevent the violence in Mexico from spilling across the border, but will also take some pressure off of the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs.
"When the bad guys see Americans in uniform, it has an effect on them, no doubt about it," McCain said. "But also there is work that Guard personnel could do to relieve the burden from Border Patrol and Customs."
That being said, McCain added that cooperation with Mexico on border issues will continue to be important.
As part of his trip to Yuma, McCain also met with area growers, who expressed their concerns over not having a legal temporary workers program.
"I had to tell them the truth that the unions have so much influence now in this administration that it's not likely that we will get a legal temporary workers program," McCain said, "but that I will continue to do everything I can to get it."
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While he is in favor of some form of national health care reform, McCain said he is dead set against it as it is currently and doesn't think the president has enough support to get it passed.
"The Congressional Budget Office issued a report (Thursday) that was devastating, saying the plan wasn't going to insure everyone and did not include a cost saving measure," McCain said. "The problem with health care in America isn't the quality. It's the best in the world. It's the cost of the care. This proposal does nothing to address the cost of care."
As for the future of the Republican Party, McCain said it needs to get its act together before it can regain any of the seats in Congress it lost in the 2008 election.
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Yah hah hah. I gotcha. Red Sun also makes their little point about needing more workers.
“As part of his trip to Yuma, McCain also met with area growers, who expressed their concerns over not having a legal temporary workers program.”
Trust me. I lived in Yuma four times and for twenty one years the last go round. They do not favor amnesty down there.
On the other hand, Yuma is so unique that it has the best Mexican food anywhere, and you walk right up to your public officials. I had my picture taken with Kyl and even McCain.
Unemployment is on the rise, so of course we need to import new guest workers on top of the steady stream of illegals McCain is dead set on protecting.
How Orwellian. “Guest” worker program. They are our guests, and if we oppose the program, then we are being unhospitable.
Why doesn’t McCain work to get more funding to bolster the ranks of the Customs and Border Patrol? That would make more sense than to use the National Guard. The National Guard has other missions to do, and they don’t need to be spread too thin pulling continuous border duty.
Umm-shouldn’t that be dismisses border security?
After all, it is McCain we’re discussing here.
I don’t recall him ever saying a word about the sentencing of Campion and Ramos. Am I wrong?
Do we still tell the Guard to leave their bullets at home?
A great start to the party "getting its act together" would be voting Juan out of office in the 2010 Arizona Republican primary.
McQueeg needs to follow Walter Cronkite.
LLS
ping
We’re approaching 10% unemployment and he’s pushing an amnesty/guest worker program? Yeah that’s the ticket to a GOP comeback Stain.
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