For all you McCain fans who keep telling me that you believe he’s a man of his word , I have a quick question. How do you explain his new statement that comprehensive immigration reform must be a “top priority”?
After several of the business leaders complained about the difficulty in obtaining temporary H1B visas for scientists and engineers, something the Senate immigration bill was supposed to address, Mr. McCain expressed regret the measure did not pass, calling it a personal “failure,” as well as one by the federal government.
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”
He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”
Remember how he supposedly learned the lesson that “border security has to come first” back in January? Remember last year when he begrudgingly agreed to do what the majority of this country wanted and said he’d “…build the God-damned fence if they want it”? Yeah, that got relegated to the second paragraph pretty fast.
So, my friends who keep telling me that I must, I must, I must vote for Johnny Mac, which version am I supposed to believe. Shall I believe the one who is lying to me now or the one who lied to me before? Or do I just do what I’ve always done and compare his few words against his hiring of a former Mexican government official who is a vocal open-borders proponent and his voluntary and eager appearance before a racist separatist group?
Help me out here, guys. It has to be worth at least a few of those Brown-Nose Points y’all can collect from your guy.
(via Hot Air and Michelle Malkin and memeorandum. Gosh, looks like McCain’s prevarications are getting a little attention. That can’t be good, now can it?)
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Why is this a real issue? I just don’t get it. There’s no point in building a fence unless it completely surrounds the US. If there is a gap, that’s where people will cross. And let’s be honest: Are we willing to close down every beach in America and turn it into a barbed wired border fence? I don’t think so. But if we don’t, that’s where they’ll come to shore. There really isn’t a realistic fence solution. And even if there were, Mexicans would quickly adopt the Chinese method, which is to come here in cargo containers (which are rarely inspected). The Chinese, of course, will come here regardless of what we do.
Fostert – The real issue is enforcement. I don’t think most conservatives are as hip about a fence (nor blind to its weaknesses) as they appear. They have just latched on to it because it is the most visible sign of the govt.’s commitment to enforcing the law. If they would just enforce the laws; deport the ones they find, block them from tax-payer funded programs (health care, food aid, public school, etc.) and enforce the illegal use of social security numbers, then this place would not even be hospitable to illegals…and hence, they would leave and many more would never come.