No it hasn't. Hillary and Obama say they will enforce the border too.
Posted on 02/27/2008 12:37:03 PM PST by calcowgirl
WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain faces a dilemma on immigration as he works to persuade conservatives he's tough enough on the issue without erasing his historic appeal to Hispanic voters.
Once a crusader for offering the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants a way to get legal status, McCain now says his first priority is fortifying U.S. borders.
The metamorphosis reflects McCain's intensifying effort to consolidate his support among conservatives, who deride the Arizona senator's past proposals on immigration as offering amnesty to lawbreakers, and bitterly resent his work with Democrats, including Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, on the issue.
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Listen to McCain's speeches or look on his campaign web site now, and there's little mention of the fight to give illegal immigrants a way to stay in the U.S. lawfully. He instead emphasizes border security — the catch phrase of conservatives who scorned his earlier proposals.
It's a difference of emphasis, not a change in stance, Republican strategists say.
"He's in an excellent place with conservatives who are concerned about immigration, because his position — that he'll secure the border first and have that security certified by the border-state governors, and then we'll go back and deal with the 12 million — seems to have satisfied most people," said Charlie Black, a McCain adviser.
"He says, 'Look, we got the message — the American people do not trust us when we say we'll secure the border,'" Black added.
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Just goes to show how a political consultant who worked on one winning campaign decades ago can milk a whole career from it, no matter how big a boob he is. Sheesh.
No it hasn't. Hillary and Obama say they will enforce the border too.
Tell that to your buds over at La Raza.
Careful. Gerry Rivers is a most formidable opponent. He once single handedly killed over 400 Al Qaeda terrorists with nothing but a microphone and harsh language.
I am sure. There is no promise Juan could make that I would trust him to keep.
Still infecting threads with your pro-LaRaza garbage, you illegal enabler?
Listening to Lou Dobbs. It`s incredible the way the rhetoric is being ratcheted up. The pro-illegal crowd are now saying that any attempts to stop illegal immigration amounts to ethnic cleansing.
“Attempts to expel tens of millions of Americans amounts to ethnic cleansing.”
This is a new low - even for you, ETC. Your rubbish posts convince me that you are the retread version of “clawrence3”: the anchor baby troll that was banned from this site a while ago.
BTW, your LaRaza criminal/rapist/gangster pals are NOT “American” but I’m sure even you know that by now.
Who are these "tens of millions of Americans" that you're referring to?
Not familiar with Minnesota, huh?
Is deporting tens of millions of illegal alien lawbreakers to their home country "ethnic cleansing" in your dictionary?
Foreign nationals who have entered this country illegally, and who remain here by fraudulent means, in direct violation of the immigration laws of this country, are -- patently; demonstrably; inarguably -- NOT "Americans." @sshat.
Dear god, that’s all we need. McCain insulting our intelligence and one of his minions talking down to us.
Standing on the virtual nonexistent fence. Usually means you fall and crimp your balls.
Okay, End Run Reconquista: SINCE WHEN WAS 'ILLEGAL' AN ETHNICITY??
Look...just deport yourself back to your nation of origin. From your posts, it's obvious that you hold as much regard for American law as your illegal alien brethren.
ETC’s just an America-hating Quisling traitor. If he’s even an American.
“It’s a difference of emphasis, not a change in stance”
Right. Now he wants amnesty AFTER the border is secured.
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