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

June 22, 2008 | Filed Under Elections, GOP, Immigration/Immigrants, News, President, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston |

-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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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston