McCain courts Hispanic voters
On Cinco de Mayo, John McCain reached out today to Hispanic voters, launching a Spanish-language campaign website and acknowledging that Latinos had been discouraged by the harsh anti-immigration tone during parts of the Republican primaries.
The Arizona senator championed comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, but it failed to get through Congress. Under attack during the campaign for being too lenient on illegal immigration, McCain declared that Americans would not back reform until the borders were made secure. Representative Tom Tancredo, the most vocal opponent of illegal immigration, famously said during a debate that his fellow GOP hopefuls were trying to "out-Tancredo" him.
McCain told reporters in Phoenix that Hispanic citizens want America's borders secured and illegal immigrants to be treated humanely.
He issued a statement marking Cinco de Mayo, which marks a key military victory in 1862 on the path to Mexico's independence. "Today we join together to remember the sacrifice that these Mexican patriots endured, as well as the struggles of all those around the world striving for freedom," the statement says. "We recognize as well the important friendship that exists between our country and Mexico, and celebrate the many contributions Mexican-Americans have made to our society, culture, security, and economy.
McCain also announced that he will attend an important Hispanic political convention, La Raza, in July.
The Democratic National Committee, however, accused McCain of double-talk on immigration. "McCain said he would pursue comprehensive immigration reform as soon as he takes office," it said in a statement. "But in the same news conference, McCain also took the opposite position: saying that the borders have to be secured first....McCain's double-talk is indicative of a major problem the GOP nominee faces heading to the general election, trying to both appease the Party's conservative base while trying to reach out to moderate voters and Hispanics who have been targeted with ugly Republican Party attacks on the immigration issue."
on illegal immigration !!!!! and the taking of our jobs and having to listen to spanish everywhere we go!!!!!
Legal immigration is great!!!!!
screw them, why is jaun McAmnesty not looking for "whites votes"?....oh that would be racist. NO AMNESTY!!!!
As a legal immigrant I have to say that even I have been offended by the language that comes out of the anti-immigration crowd. The comments above me for example. The whole lie about not hating legal immigrants or non-whites is a myth. Every organization that is opposed to illegal immigration also wants to dramatically cut back on legal immigration and many of the major organizations have ties to white supremacists. There is a reason why most of us legal immigrants stand behind our undocumented counterparts. We know we're next in their hate mongering if they have their way.
Moses and Joshua were illegal aliens too when they migrated from EGYPT to ISRAEL.(Look at the TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE) in EXODUS 18 V3 Moses said "I AM AN ALIEN IN A STRANGE COUNTRY".....
Legals pay taxes. Are we not in debt up to our butt. Somebody help me here.
What about the FREE LOADERS EUROPEANS who get 300 BILLION DOLLARS a year knocking out millions of AMERICANS out of work.. DIRECT YOUR ANGER AT THE PAGAN EUROPEANS who assisted SADDAM...
we want ROMNEY. OTHERWISE WE WON'T VOTE FOR OTHERS INCLUDING DEMOCRATS.
ROMNEY HAS THE BACKGROUND OF BEING GOOD PRESIDENT
Check the ABC News story on Congressional Pork: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/Story?id=4572406&page=2
"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., received 53 earmarks for his state, worth $97.4 million... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has never asked for an earmark.""
Obama asked for a earmark for his wife's employer, and her salary more than doubled.
Let's all chant together "Yes we can, yes we can. WE WANT MORE EARMARKS, MORE PORK, MORE CORRUPTION"
Mark,
You are spinning, Are you posting from Mexico? I have read an almost identical post that someone checked out. and low and behold the ISP was from Mexico.
Most if not all pro rule of law, pro democracy groups are pro legal immigration and have members of all races, and legal immigrant members of all races.
McCain is going to address La Raza? La Raza means THE Race, as in the superior race. It is like addressing that dispictable anti black organization who wears white sheets.
Don't forget MECHA who preaches reconquest, superior blood of hispanics and genocide of all non hispanics.
McCain refuses to say what he will do with the 36 million foreigners illegally in our country. He just talks securing the border.
There is no way there will ever be amnesty for special prefrences for the foreigners here illegally. 68% of Americans are against it. 44 states have passed laws trying to reinstate the rule of law and the democratic process. Why? Be cause Americans have demanded it. Illegals must be deported.
What the illegal aliens and their supportersw want is racist preferential treatment for hispanics. Our laws say all Americans get an roughly equal shot at bringing in their family. The lawbreakers and their supporters want Hispanic Americans to be alllowed to bring in 10 times the number of family members., and to do so before anyone else, AND those illegal all get to keep the taxpayer freebies that legal immigrants do not get.
Guess what? That is racist. It is unconstitutional, violating the equal protection and the anti discrimination clauses.
These foreigners here illegally and their supporters are such racists.
But the Neo Cons, and the Dem elite, including Obama... want free trade for huge profits for the rich few, and they want north american integration. That is the real goal. Mexico wants it to.. it cannot create an adequate country of its own, so it wants to take ours over. In Feb. President Calderon said that there will be integration with Mexico so you better get use to it.
That is why our gov stopped enforcing the immigration laws... to promote integration by "evolutionary stealth". a bush gov term. They do not have the consent of Americans.
They also are destroying democracy. Our laws are democratically passed; by not enforcing them you throw out the will of the people to cater to the special interests of the few. That is what failedl, corrupt, crime ridden third world countries like Mexico do. That is what our gov is doling now, pushed by the elite for those huge free trade profits.
Time to make our gov and Mexico reel. No need for a big campaign. Ordinary Americans should just, individually boycott:
1. Mexico - no vacations there, don't buy Mexican made products
2. Abslolut vodka - they ran an ad in Mexico labelling 1/3 of the usa as belong to Mexico. See www.alipac.us.
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS
SAY NO TO RACIST AMNESTY FOR HISPANICS!
SAY NO TO RACIST PREFERENCES FOR HISPANICS!
SAY NO NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION WITH MEXICO
AMERICA'S LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD ...
PROTECT IT AGAINST FOREIGNERS TRYING TO REPLACE IT WITH SPANISH AND HISPANIC CULTURE. !
SAY YES TO THE DOLLAR!
SAY NO TO THE AMERO !
We are in the fight of our lives. If we fail, we lose our language, culture and nation.
All that will remain to be done is to ask the last person in the country we called America to lower the flag one last time.
Good point Chaz, but it's also important to remember that undocumented immigrants pay taxes also. Most have jobs or they wouldn't be here and most have fake social security numbers or they wouldn't have jobs. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes on a greater portion of their income than most U.S. citizens and they receive the least from our government.
John McCain is an old Republican, who cannot do anything against the will of extreme right wing Republicans and these pro-capitalist group cannot give any meaningful rights to any legal or illegal immigrants. They believe in nothing but EXPLOITATION.
Vote for Obama, he is an HOPE for all middle class and poor Americans, whites and non-whites, natives and immigrants ALL.
We all can make history defeating old and fragile McCain and Loud Mouth Hillary.
We need gentle and civilized person as our Commander-in-Chief.
OBAMA IS AND HE WILL BE.
Remind me again, does elite mean "smart" or "rich"?
Both the Clintons and the McCains have more money than the Obamas, so I guess they're accusing Barack of being smart. Pretty scary idea, having a smart person in the White House. What would happen to this country?
McCain is such a FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't vote for him if he were the last person on this planet. Hispanic citizens want the border secured. What about American citizens want the borders secured. If the illegals are treated inhumanely, then they bring it on themselves for sneaking across our borders in the first place. McCain makes me sick to my stomach.
Together China,Europe,India,Pakistan,take out nearly 800 BILLION DOLLARS out of our economy each year, compared to 20 BILLION DOLLARS from MEXICO whose majority people worship JESUS CHRIST....
Jeremy,
You are wrong. Most foreigners here illegally do not pay taxes. And those who do, pay very little.
After all their contributions are totally, illegals are still be subsidized by the taxpayer to the tune of 22,00 per illegal per year. Legal immigrants are not entitled to suck off our welfare for 5 years.
The states who have cracked down on illegal aliens, forcing them out by denying them jobs have found not only is there a great reduction in social service demands, but revenue from income taxes has soared. Americans taking the job the illegals are leaving pay taxes !
Obama is 100 for free trade and north american integration and amnesty for the lawbreaking foreigners, almost all hispanic. As Obama has proved to be a bigot, it is not suprising that he holds these racist positions.
Obama lied to Americans. He said he would have tough nafta renegotiations while letting the canadians know they could ignore his remarks as 'mere campaign rhetoric! ".... Nice to know what he thinks of his suppoters.. that they are so dumb that he can con them. Then when questioned Obama lied about the contact with the canadians.,.. until the contraditory memo came out.
The man is a liar, a bigot, and an arrogant snot to boot.
McCain is also 100 per cent free trade, north american integration.
Clinton has said she will shut down the north american integration program if it exists ( it does.. there is an office in dc writing regulaiton right now.. check out www.stopnorthamericanunion.com). She has taken Americans side on Nafta.. saying it must be renegotiated so american workers are protected.
If you want the USA to continue to exist as a separate country, if you do not want Spanish be to the language spoken here, and hispanic culture to take over our nation....if you do not want to integrate with mexico where integration means take over by mexcio of the usa........the only choice is clinton.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about the Mestizo illegal aliens; shoot them or whatever, but get them gone from our streets. Same goes for every other ethnic group, color, gender, or whatever from some 200 countries who are illegal aliens. Be fair; treat all these criminals equally and ship them out of here.
McCain has also broken campaign finance laws that he helped write!!!!!! Come on help us to get McCain disqualified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anti-illegal immigration is racist but a group called "la raza" is no problem. You people do know what that means in english, right?
All of the 3 Stooges are the same on this issue as well as almost all aspects of globalization.
F them all!
But McCain is the biggest traitor.
That backstabbing sob.
Hes an embarrassment to the uniform.
McCain is determined to pass a bill that will allow a path to citizenship for all illegals who have not committed heinous acts such as murder. His bill WOULD allow the rest of the law-abiding illegals to apply for legalization as long as they have done no more than stolen identities, committed tax fraud, falsifying documents when applying for work, and driving without licenses or insurance, etc. My question is obvious. Which laws do I get to break and get a free pass on.
McCain will attempt to pass an amnesty bill once he says the border is secure. Do you know how he plans to tell that the border is secure? With the American Military on guarding the border? No. With thousands more border patrol agents patroling the border? No. With technology that actually works? No. The border will be deemed secure when the border governors SAY the border is secure. And we all know governors never lie?
McCain hasn't changed his spots. He just rearranged a few of them to make them "look" different.
And I'd like to know (if it is actually true) why Americans of Hispanic descent are discouraged by anti-illegal immigrant sentiment. Seems they're listening to the wrong people. They are citizens and America should be their first concern. Also, with Hispanic surnames, they are often the first to have their identities stolen.
If McCain is truly courting the likes of La Raza then he must be sliding into senility, or HE is listening to the wrong people.
McCain is a traitor. He wants to give our country away at home and continue to bruse our reputation abroad. I can't believe no matter who is our next president they are going to give law breaking Mexican's citizenship. It is only going to increase more immigration unitl we are just another crapy latin American country. Courting the hispanic vote, more like pandering. www.goodoleboybumperstickers.com
Hey immigrant Bashers, LAURA INGRAHAM adopted an immigrant child(MARIA) from GUATEMALA and she does not speak ENGLISH... Immigrant Bashers I defy you to tell LAURA that MARIA will be deported because she does not speak ENGLISH... Every child in this country citizen or not is loved by GOD...
Now let me tell you what to expect in the near future. We are going into a depression that will cause rationing of food in the US. The next president,or maybe even Bush, (We may not have an election,)will unleash the INS to do what the 1986 immigration law dictated and jail illegal employers. Citizens will be happy to pick up trash from the roadways as a way to pay for heat and necesities. Everyone will have to protect their pantries by force. Gardens will be in vogue. FEMA will become synomous with food. People won't have the time to reflect on the fact that the Demicans and the Republicrats did this to what was the most powerfull and gracious national experiment in history. The cataclysm is already bought and is inevitable. Bill Clinton's economic plan reversed this march toward the abyss and the traitors in the White House put us back on the path towards annilation. Survivalists are the only smart people in the room.
I think Mccain has a mental disorder caused by his time in the POW camp.
I 've heard that there are hundreds of thousands of vets with post traumatic
stress disorder. Its hard to believe he was tortured in a POW camp for
more than 5 years without it affecting his sanity.
keep all the hatred going. The democratic party will be dominant for the next 40 years.
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