What ..?? “... finally paid attention...”
Good grief! Where the hell has he been in the last decades of years he’s been in the congress ..??
If McCain had WANTED TO DO SOMETHING he had plenty of chances .. but all I ever heard him say was, “... let ‘em have their Goddamn fence ...”.
That did it for me!
This is where McCain’s been for decades:
1988: Honored by La Raza for opposing official English
McCain attacked Proposition 106, a [AZ] statewide referendum that was being advanced by the so-called English-only movement. McCain told the teachers, Why would we want to pass some kind of initiative that a significant portion of our population considers an assault on their heritage?
Because of his position on the English-only initiative and his willingness to fight for a pluralistic American culture, McCain was one of 10 members of congress who were honored by the National Council of La Raza, a nationwide coalition of Hispanic organizations. In a speech at a ceremony in Washington, before an audience of 500, McCain again attacked English-only initiatives.
The building of our great nation is not the work of immigrants from one or two countries, McCain said, Our nation and the English language have done quite well with Chinese spoken in California, German in Pennsylvania, Italian in New York, Swedish in Minnesota, and Spanish throughout the Southwest. I fail to see the cause for alarm now.
Source: Man of the People, by Paul Alexander, p.122-123 Jan 19, 2004