McCain calls for guest worker visas

SacBee ^ | May 22, 2008 | Peter Hecht

[radar101]

NION CITY - Republican presidential candidate John McCain joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in calling today for comprehensive immigration reform, including guest worker visas to bring employees to California's Silicon Valley and the state's vast agricultural fields.

The two men brought up the issue at McCain's prompting during a global competitiveness roundtable featuring California technology executives and entrepreneurs.

Asked by Silicon Valley panelists on what he would do to grant more visa for skilled technology workers, McCain broadly advocated the comprehensive immigration reform plan he had backed with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in Congress.

The same issue brought McCain intense criticism during the Republican presidential primary from conservatives who assailed him as soft on illegal immigration and an advocate of amnesty.

But today McCain, the now presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said an immigration program is needed that protects America's borders and national security. While he called for punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, he also advocated a humane approach that treats illegal workers as "God's child

[AmusedBystander]

psychological bologna but the end result is the same. It will put a socialist in the White House who supports amnesty for illegals.

Mmmmmmm...psychological bologna.

Actually my bologna will be less socialist than yours. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

[DoughtyOne]

I never thought I’d be asked to vote for a guy who would go on Ellen Degeneris show and support homosexual anything.

Those women out there look like they’re on prozac.

[AuntB]

” and Americans north and south share a common geography and a common destiny. It is time to embrace this destiny for the benefit of all our peoples.”

Americans north and South? I’m sorry. Anyone who calls anything south of the Rio Grande an American isn’t one. ‘Destiny’? This man is going to proclaim our destiny in total violation of everything we are supposed to stand for? Anyone remember when a bunch of political hacks decided the ‘destiny’ of native Americans?

Here’s what one said:

Circa 1832: Elias Boudinot aka Buck Watie, as Editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, which was published both in English and Cherokee and read in the East and Europe, captured the Cherokee situation in just a few words.

“Perhaps Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were only tantalizing us when they encouraged us in the pursuit of agriculture and government. Why were we not told long ago that we could not be permitted to establish a government within the limits of any state? The Cherokees have always had a government of their own. Nothing, however, was said when we were governed by savage laws. Others say it is time for the Cherokees to submit to inevitable destiny.

What Destiny? To be slandered and then butchered? Yes, this is the bitter cup prepared for us by a republican and religious government. We shall drink it to the dregs.”

I should have counted the McCain ‘my friends’ on the ELLEN show..

I think I’m finally over the edge. I’m not mad anymore. I’m delirious and very, very sad.

Good night all.

[IM2MAD]

Our country is going to suffer a lot of misery from 2008 to 2012...

...and beyond.

[NormsRevenge]

to bring employees to California’s Silicon Valley and the state’s vast agricultural fields.

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Nothing like a couple TWirPs looking out for big business and pocketing money on the side in doing so.

[Man50D]

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

You don't need to put a socialist in the most powerful position in the country if not the world to know where he stands.

[calcowgirl]

Shhh...John is kissing Ellen.

I'm actually watching this. He's now talking about the harm to our children by greenhouse gases. Real harm!!! GAG. I'm really beginning to despise him.

[unixfox]

I for one WILL NOT vote for this numb nuts!

[IM2MAD]

.....and there would be background checks so that there would be no criminal element in this country.”

Would these be the 72-hour whizbang background checks where, if it’s not completed within a brief period, the illegal alien is home free?

[TLI]

Responding to a question about so-called H1-B visas for Silicon Valley workers, McCain said: "We have to attract the best and brightest minds. It isn't just H1-B visas. In our agricultural sector, they can't find workers as well. We need a temporary agriculture (worker) program."

Golly, let me guess. The visa or visas will total five years? Looks like little juan finally learned to shut up about that.

Or the sacbee just did not report it.

McCain broadly advocated the comprehensive immigration reform plan he had backed with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in Congress.

Well that just about takes care of the “I learned my lesson” pack of lies. What a scumbag.

[dforest]

That is the way I feel Aunt B. Take a break, enjoy summer why you can, and forget about the scum that is running. They are all unworthy and embarrassing, low class users.

[AmusedBystander]

You don't need to put a socialist in the most powerful position in the country if not the world to know where he stands.

Absolutely. That's why I will do all that I can to keep Obama on Oprah's payroll and out of the White House.

[TADSLOS]

He's now talking about the harm to our children by greenhouse gases. Real harm!!

It's for the chilrun'... and the polar bears.

[Man50D]

Absolutely. That's why I will do all that I can to keep Obama on Oprah's payroll and out of the White House.

My statement also applies to socialist McCain.

[dforest]

Make sure you only say nice things about Ted, you know.

The best and brightest minds are the ones that will pick lettuce for a pittance. McCain is a bold faced liar. Always has been the biggest blowhard example of a hypocrite.

[Proud2BeRight]

“I’m still of the belief that McCain with a Dem. Congress will cause more harm than a Dem. president and Dem. Congress.”

Agreed. With McCain, the they will all boast about the “bipartisan” crappola as they shaft us with liberalism.

[TADSLOS]

he also advocated a humane approach that treats illegal workers as "God's children."

McCain said they should be allowed to seek legal status in a "humane and comprehensive fashion" through a program "they can count on and trust."

Here comes some of God's chilrun' now...

[Travis McGee]

This is the man John McCain chose to be his "Hispanic Outreach Director." Hernandez is a self-certified traitor. Born in Dallas, he decided as an adult to become a dual-national Mexican citizen. His last "real" job was serving on Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet as his "American Reconquista Director." After that gig ran out, he worked (sic) for George Soros funded internationalist foundations, like the one that published his new book.

The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA. Hernandez believes all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." He believes there should be no border at all between Mexico and the USA, ever.

And this is the man McCain chose for his "Hispanic Outreach Director." When McCain was asked about this choice, he said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions. If so, McCain is supporting invasion and reconquista.

Then I read our Constitution, Article 4 Section 4, where it says the federal government MUST protect the states from invasion, and I can only conclude one thing: John McCain is a new Benedict Arnold.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Odd how I don't see any of Juan's paid mug whores shills flying online apologia squadron hereabouts, defending this latest blatant betrayal of America's security and interests.

The staking through the electoral heart of this unapologetically leftist ghoul, come 11/04, cannot possibly come soon enough.

[Liz]

.......I can only conclude one thing: John McCain is a new Benedict Arnold.............

He's the perfect picture of a demagogue:

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to people he believes to be idiots."