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Republican hard line on migrants risks Latino ire
Loading ...When he ran for U.S. president two years ago, Republican John McCain told town hall meetings across the United States that illegal immigrants were “all God’s children.”
But at a church hall in Tucson last weekend, he spoke up for a tough new Arizona law that seeks to drive those undocumented busboys and landscapers from the desert state where he is battling to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat.
“The polls show 60, 70, 80 percent of the American people support Arizonans saying ‘secure our borders,’” McCain said to a clatter of applause.
Arizona’s migrant crackdown has hurled immigration back to the fore in the run-up to the November congressional elections. And embracing it has become a litmus test for Republican primary candidates facing scrutiny from the party’s resurgent right wing.
A war hero who ran for president against Barack Obama in 2008, McCain styled himself as a ‘maverick’ who was prepared to reach across the aisle to craft a comprehensive immigration bill with the late Democrat Edward Kennedy. But that was 2007.
Continue Reading at Reuters.
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