3 March 2008
Immigration Issue Unimportant?
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Constitution in Peril; Rejecting Herd Mentality .
We are now being told in Op-Ed pieces that the Immigration Issue as a hot button is dead. Americans don’t care. Those who are easily herded by words will fall in line with this forced opinion even as more Hispanics fall in line to cross the border. They have their proof. Those candidates who were tough on immigration have been defeated. Never mind this was done by the press, voter fraud and prejudice, it was done and now we are expected to shut our mouthing concerning this issue.
Personally, I believe those who say that one of the reasons the Establishment favors Hispanic growth is because they more easily fall in line with the liberal nanny state. The nanny is telling us to be good and go to sleep while they take care of this. Sorry, not happening.
McCain must walk tightrope on immigration
Teresa Puente
March 3, 2008
All the tough talk on immigration hasn’t helped Republicans win elections.
Senator John McCain is poised to become the Republican presidential nominee, and his immigration policies were the most moderate of the GOP competitors.
The “let’s deport them all” position resulted in failure for former Governors Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and for U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo.
Huckabee called for all illegal immigrants to leave within 120 days. Romney exploited the immigration theme in his ads.
This also should be a warning to aspiring politicians…
The truth is most Americans, including most Republicans, aren’t as extreme on immigration as is widely perceived.The deport-them-all crowd is “extremely loud. They phone in to talk radio. They call the U.S. Congress,” said Cecilia Munoz with the National Council of La Raza in Washington, D.C. “But they’re not numerous enough to turn an election.”…
But lately, McCain is placing more of an emphasis on border security and talking less about guest-worker programs and pathways to legalization.”For the Republican base, he’s got to do that border security first rhetoric,” said Douglas Rivlin, with the National Immigration Forum in Washington, D.C.
If McCain goes too far right to appease a small but vocal minority, he risks alienating moderate Republican and Latino voters. McCain has had strong Latino voter support in his home state of Arizona, and he is hoping to regain Republican losses.
“Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the electorate,” Munoz points out.McCain faces a difficult balancing act. It makes more sense for him to support what most Americans want — secure borders, yes, but also a humane plan to help legalize those who contribute to our economy and our country.
If McCain goes too far to the right, he will lose.
8 Comments so far...
Jan W. Says:
3 March 2008 at 2:51 pm.
That’s just crazy. Everyone I know is so upset about this issue. It is not dead and it will only get worse. I read an article from California saying that the illegal immigrants had a lot lower crime figures than legal Americans. Statistics can be manipulated. I know that just isn’t true. I have heard way too much the other way and you can see it on the local news every night.
SGS Says:
3 March 2008 at 2:54 pm.
McCain will do nothing about this issue. In fact, his “modus operandi” won’t change a bit — he will try to ram the whole package of his from last Spring down our throats. He’s too stubborn. Perhaps he may play his plan under a different light. For example, he did say in this campaign he will secure our boundary first, then do the rest. He will go around, saying, it’s in progress and that it’s the fault of government that it is not going as fast as we’d like it to, and so on. He’s though and though politician, with nay a streak of statesman in him!
Jesse Says:
3 March 2008 at 2:58 pm.
No kidding and shame on people who are so gullible as to believe McCain’s lies. He definitely won’t change his strips. He will betray every conservative who is being pressured into voting for him. I know I would regret to my dying day voting for him if he actually got into office and showed his true colors. Hmmm…strips and colors, I feel like I’m in a Dr. Seuss book.
SGS Says:
3 March 2008 at 3:04 pm.
Jesse, I wonder which regret will be worse, my vote for Gore back in 2000 (I was a green freak back then, before I saw through the lies of Global Warming crowd; I’m from Maine, after all!) or a vote for McCain even if I ever do get around to do it… 
Jesse Says:
3 March 2008 at 3:15 pm.
We all get fooled sometime. I really am sold on the argument that if a lib gets in, then we will watch closely and the republicans in congress will try to pull back some against socialism. But if McCain gets in he will push the liberal agenda and the republicans will be pressured to support him. We keep hearing that on this site but I want to repeat it often for new readers. I think it is the crux of the whole issue about whether or not to back down and vote for McCain.
Cavetrollhead Says:
3 March 2008 at 6:02 pm.
I am 100% with you Jesse but right now we are preaching to the choir.
I have an idea.
Lets try to find out what the most important blog spaces are on the net and proliferate this idea to them.
They need to understand that if republicans eject conservatives, conservatism dies.
Ghost Says:
3 March 2008 at 7:10 pm.
Good idea. How do we find out the important blogs? If someone did that then let us know, we could decide when we have an idea we should get out there. We could make a bigger difference.
Terrie Soberg Says:
3 March 2008 at 9:12 pm.
I just heard on the news today that the illegal woman who ran into the school bus and killed four people has been charged by the state and federal government. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to her, if they ever give us “the rest of the story.”
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