McCain: immigration 'top priority'

Good for him, we need to FIX this mess. I hope he has a "BETTER" fix than before. As long as people are will to do anything to get here. We are the best of the best nations.

So lets "FIX" it and keep on being the "Best of the Best"

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com

You have to be kidding me. Immigration reform his top priority? That's a loser. It's about the economy stupid.

May God bless you John McCain, you are one who stands up for the weak against the few hate-mongering Republicans out there. Now, I want to start and know you better.

Dear American Voters, reporters, media. professionals, political parties, and presidential Nominees,

Subject: Presidential Temperament


Please talk about and "Compare And Contrast" the " Presidential Temperament" of our Presidential presumptive nominees. I will also request and plead to the nominees themselves [ Hon. Senator McCain and Obama ].

Our nation has been applying this yard and stick tor the appointments and confirmation process of our Supreme Court Justices nominees.

Our Greatgrand Nation Foundations are as under:
Family, friends, fellows, faith, funds, fun, with fairness & freedom And without fear, favor, and failure.

It will be disgrace and shameful if the nominees and media will not look into this critical and crucial aspect under current challenging times and circumstances facing our country and the Globe.

Please America and citizens USA wake up and ask to compare and contrast the " Presidential Temperament" of our presumptive presidential nominees.

Yours sincerely,

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret].
Disabled American Veteran
Forensic psychiatrist, Las Vegas, Nevada.

What a crock! So now we have no candidate who will treat the illegals for what they are: criminals.

Yes indeed, they are God´s children and deserve decent treatment. It almost makes me want to vote for McCain.

Mc Cain will not win so don't worry about him turning the USA into Mexico like AZ is.

He is such an idiot. They represent a small percentage of the electorate. Swing maybe? But He just alienated many that would vote for him to have a chance at 7 percent of the voting block that mostly votes democratic anyhow. He is such an ignorant fool... They are Gods children but what about the American children that they prey upon, steal from, and take away jobs from? Oh yeah they have no Raza for them...

This is just one of a number of reasons why John McCain is unacceptable as a candidate. It is his second flip-flop on the issue. First, he was for granting amnesty. Then, during the primaries, he did a soft-shoe on the issue and claimed he had an epiphany. He said he finally understood that the American public wanted the border secured before anything else. He tried very hard to make it sound like his base had convinced him he had been wrong and that he had changed. To most, that sounded like a reasonable retreat from the Bush "amnesty" doctrine. Now he wants to go back to granting amnesty after securing the Republican nomination?

No one can claim any concern for the rule of law if he or she supports the kind of "comprehensive immigration reform" McCain does. One does not support the rule of law by rewarding those who break the law. It only encourages more lawlessness. Congress passed the same kind of law back in 1986 and it failed. Not only did it fail in its intended effect of integrating an immigrant population, it encouraged more illegal immigration. That is why we have now four to five times more illegal aliens than we had before the 1986 law. Despite this, no one has done anything about it. The 1986 law was also supposed to secure the border. That did not happen. More recently, Congress passed laws to secure the border. Efforts to implement those laws appear to be failing, and that is because the Bush administration has no heart to stop the flow of illegal immigration. With this history as a backdrop, McCain's push for more immigration amnesty is simply advocacy for more mass lawlessness. Such is the likely, immediate effect that his idea of a "comprehensive" reform bill would have.

If the government does not enforce its own, constitutionally enacted laws, then it ceases to function as a government. Without enforcement, there is no law; and with no viable laws enforced, the government fails its basic function of protecting its citizens. If that is what McCain wants, then I do not want him in the White House. I am not going to hold my nose and vote for him just because I'm a conservative and he's a Republican.

This stand has cost John McCain my vote. It is wrong, violates our sovereignty and screws up our right to control immigration policy and the number and type of immigrant we let in. They may be God's children but they are here illegally.

From McCain's speech:

"Those men and women are my brothers and sisters, my fellow Americans, an association that means more to me than any other. As a private citizen or as your President, I will never, never do anything to dishonor our obligations to them and their families or to forget what they and their ancestors have done to make this country the beautiful, bountiful, blessed place we love."

Apparently McCain's sentiment doesn't extend to supporting Jim Webb's GI Bill that would hugely impact the minority servicemen that McCain claims to honor and respect as comrades. Or any other bill that provides needed care for the troops.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_9sI7hzAc

Senator Obama already promised he would give the millions of illegal aliens, squatting in this nation AMNESTY? His counterpart McCain will do likewise to get the vote in November. We must pass the SAVE ACT before this happens. Afterwards will be too late for overburdened taxpayers, who will have to support foreign nationals. Plus the millions more waiting behind our worthless border, will think it's 'open day' for the third world countries.

If it's something to do with enforcing our immigration laws, the special interest lobby will crawl out of the holes to stop its enactment. Just like the SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) a Federal bill, the laggard Democrats don't want voted into law. Rep.Cannon of Utah, lost his bid as an incumbent mainly because he pandered to the pro-open-borders special interest lobby. Corruption has manifested itself, as house Speaker Nancy Pelosi has used intimidation to stop her cohorts from endorsing this legislation. Ice has a free Tipline: 1-866-DHS-2ICE for intelligence to locate illegal aliens, or predatory businesses that employ them.

Under this strictly enforcement law predatory employers would be arrested, fined and possibly imprisoned and millions of illegal aliens would leave of their own accord. It would give (ICE) more funding and build the US border patrol up to 20.000 more agents in strength, build the fence as originally intended. This national law would also begin to remove criminal aliens from our society. It would give extra teeth to all immigration laws now on the books. Demand the SAVE ACT! (2022243121 ) Unsuppressed details at NUMBERSUSA.

Want to see a lot of anarchy in this country,,try your amnesty ! And there are a lot more than 12 million in this country.

I wanted so badly to vote for McCain but his shift on immigration wouldn't let me. Wow, I'll be voting for 2 republicans this year, I've never voted for a republican in my life. This is nuts!

I love Obama and McCain but I want someone who doesn't always follow party line but does what is right. This is so different from the 04 race. I like them both but this just secured my vote for McCain. Obama gave in and refused to take public financing and McCain stood up and did the right thing on immigration. So I guess my mind is made.

Fortunately for McCain, most immigrants, legal or otherwise, know very little about American politics. McCain is only doing what a typical American politician does-simply make as many campaign promises to as many demographics as possible, get elected and then go back on the promises made to those who are least capable of getting back at him for breaking those promises. That's how the game is played. Good luck!

How can American citizens be asked to fight abroad in the uniform of the USA when uncontrolled borders and amnesty for illegal aliens makes their American citizenship essentially meaningless?

Count me as among the hard R conservative voters who McCain is wildly hemmorrhaging over this pivotal issue.

[[We must also understand that there are 12 million people here and they are here illegally but they are God's children, they are God's children," McCain said, pounding the podium as he repeated the words., "and must be treated as such.]]

schanna gayden was murdered almost exactly a year ago by an illegal immigrant who overstayed a student visa in wisconsin, came to chicago, joined a gang, was arrested 27 times, and gave the order for the shooting that resulted in schanna's death.

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/002382.html

Mwenda Murithi may technically be one of God's children, but he must be treated as the murderous piece of garbage that he is.

mexican, chinese, polish, russian, african...whatever. the party is over. go home and be one of god's children in your native country

well unless mc senile and obama take a stand to deport illegal alien s i wont vote at all

Anna Bord - you were always voting for McCain, since this is his 2nd flipo flop on this issue and he will change it again. McCain is illegally spending money and cannot take the public financing. He does nothing but pander, never gives details, has no anserws to anything. He would be an embarassment to our country, we already had Bush for 8 yrs we don't need another dummy in the white house like McSame for 4 more yrs

It's the economy stupid!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaR1CnfyrEo&feature=related

Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist! Illegal is illegal no matter what the crime. We don't call thieves property relocaters.

So what DOES McCain support today?

Does he support securing the border and kicking out 12 million people?

OR

Does he support a comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship (what Lou Dobbs would call amnesty), which is what his bill that he would no longer vote for includes?

I guess it depends on who he's talking to and what day it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYTUbJy71k

We have maybe 20 million illegal immigrants here working for slave wages. Once they become citizens, they will expect American wages. That’s when businesses will dump them and try to get another 20 million here to take their place so that slave wages can continue. The only way to stop this is for the American citizens to band together and take our country back..

Illegal immigration must be eliminated. We are in a recession. Millions of Americans are losing their homes and jobs. Gas and food are sky high and families struggle to exist. Illegal immigration drives wages down and drains resources meant for citizens. Why do we have immigration laws? To protect the citizens of the host country and our economy. Every country has immigration laws they enforce, the US is no different. The US allows over 2 million legal immigrants annually, more than any other nation. Another million illegal immigrants also immigrate here annually. Besides the fiscal impact, look at the problem with supporting this massive population. Competition for schools, drinking water, utilities, housing, hospitals, and jobs. What is the upside, cheap labor for businesses? If you are in business and your competition uses cheap illegal labor, how do you compete? Either you hire illegals or go out of business. As for guest worker programs, we already have 10 guest worker programs in the US. Agriculture guest workers are unlimited, they can hire as many as needed. The guest worker program they want is amnesty. Pass another amnesty and you'll have another 40 million illegal aliens here for sure. If you are here illegally, go home and come back legally or not at all. There is no argument that can justify illegal immigration

How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses "profit" as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes "stopping global warming" is worth destroying the American economy, won't drill ANWR to alleviate our energy deficit, won't appoint strict constructionist justices, won't protect marriage, would throttle free speech given another opportunity, hasn’t protected the borders in his 26 years in Congress, will give amnesty, citizenship and a ‘key’ to our country to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times in addition to other liberal media, and lives in a delusionary world of rage and self-appointed war hero vanity?

This is McCain's desire to legitimize many more than 12 million lawbreakers whose first act on Amercan soil was an illegal act...and they already feel so at home here with the new American peso--complements of BushCo. The illegals' value of the end justifiying the means is not a value I'd like incorporated into American life. Why do we have laws and quotas only to be ignored? We Dems can't have it both ways: Bad for Bush to ignore the rule of law, yet it is good to ignore the rule of law for illegals. Americans are children of God, too. Which American candidate is championing us?

McCain realizes that comprehensive immigration reform is the only answer. This reform must be humane and contain a path for people to come out of the shadows. It is the only solution that makes any sense.

McCain has just lost his political base. He will now have to rely upon Democrats and liberal leaning independents.

This is a big loser for him.

I think " Keep It Simple " got it wrong, it should have read, " Keep It Straight." !! Licensed pharmacists are legal drug pushers. Mortgage lenders are loan-sharks and President Bush's policy in Iraq is actually, the blossoming of democracy in a wasteland, formerly known as Iraq !! Get real, " Keep It Simple"!!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

McCain's got it right. Yes, we should take care of the vets. Yes, there are other important issues. But let's not forget this one.

This is the most reasonable thing McCain has said! Please, this issue is paramount! As Fitzsimmons said, it almost makes me want to vote for him!