McCain Promises Hispanics He’ll Revive ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ Measures

Posted on June 22, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last year, the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (Senate bill 1348) went down to a resounding defeat thanks to the vigilance of talk-radio and the blogs. John McCain was a leading voice in favor of passage in the Senate.

Since that defeat, John McCain has claimed that he has “gotten the message” that the country does not want the McCain version of “comprehensive reform” and he has avoided the issue in most campaign appearances.

But Juan McCain still lurks inside of John McCain.

Today, the Chicago Sun-Times news group (in the Beacon News) is reporting the results of last week’s private, no media allowed meeting between candidate McCain and several Hispanic groups in Chicago.

Reminding everyone of his sponsorship for the comprehensive immigration reform bill proposed last summer, he bluntly stated, “We failed.” However, he gave his promise that should he be elected, he would reintroduce the bill to Congress.

I think this is the thing that makes me the most upset at government. No idea is ever defeated. The defeated folks merely sit and wait to see when they can slip the same, defeated, bad ideas in when no one is looking. No matter how many times the American people tell their politicians and judges that they don’t want something, these arrogant, elitists don’t care.

So, John McCain’s amnesty bill was soundly defeated and what does he say? With a sly wink and a ready grin, he just promises to bring it up again, anyway.

I am open to suggestions because it seems that our representatives simply have no interest in what the people have to say on any subject whatever.

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4 Responses to “McCain Promises Hispanics He’ll Revive ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ Measures”

  1. James Gorman on June 22nd, 2008 8:07 pm

    If the amnesty is granted to any of the illegals in this country, This country is going to be launched into the Second Civil War.
    If the politicians are so ingnorant that they think the American pepole are not watching - they are dumber than they’ve been given credit for.
    It is time for all career politicians like Kennedy and McCain to disappear from the Washington scene and to be replaced by representatives that truly represent the voice of the people.
    Just the mention of this matter related to McCain’s name has cost him my vote and
    while I am a Republican I will work against anything that contains the Amnesty Discussion. It is time to get rid of both the Democratic and Republican parties and get back to electing people that listen to the American People, and not some foreignors.

  2. lucretia Jay, 22nd June 2008 on June 22nd, 2008 11:27 pm

    Well said Bert Logan, Gorman type has to grow up first. Thinking about civil war huh… People like him are the ones who are bringing this country down.

  3. RoBoTech on June 23rd, 2008 2:50 pm

    “People like him are the ones who are bringing this country down.’

    Then count me as one who is bringing this country down.
    I don’t give a flip what you think. It’s obviously not a love for your country, so YOUR “thinking” just doesn’t matter.

    Gorman, The Boston Tea Party was thrown for a lot less than what we are facing.

    Civil War? 2nd Ammendment? I’m for it. Just one good National Plan to fight and sustain the fight, and I’m in.
    Death to the interlopers, and death to the treasonous bastids in our Government.
    It’s time for a change alright, but not the change Obama and his “jock strap supporters” are thinking.

  4. Cohen on June 29th, 2008 11:05 am

    A comrehensive immigration reform is a matter of when, not if. Did you hear that, Senator Sessions, Lou Dobbs, Tancredo, and other monsters and mistakes of nature(KKK/NumbersUSA, FAIR, etc.)
    It is a losing war, Billy Bob: you are fighting demographics and history!
    Ouch!