McCain Revives Immigration Debate -- in Spanish Only
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post
The McCain campaign has started airing a new Spanish-language television commercial in the battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that lays the failure of comprehensive immigration reform at the feet of Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues -- despite the fact that Obama supported the bipartisan John McCain-Edward Kennedy efforts to enact such reforms and voted for their final proposal last year.
That's got Obama surrogates and leaders of some Hispanic groups raising questions similar to those that have greeted McCain's English language spots, which have had their accuracy challenged by a number of media and independent group observers.
"Obama and his Congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants," the ad's announcer says in Spanish in the spot, released Friday. "But are they? The press reports that their efforts were 'poison pills' that made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies: Ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead."
In truth, Obama and many other Democrats publicly supported the efforts to enact immigration reforms started by Sens. McCain and Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 2005. Obama voted for last year's final bipartisan proposals, but faced criticism for sponsoring changes to a temporary worker program that later failed, and Senate colleagues described him as "notably absent" during negotiations.
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Washington Post
The McCain campaign has started airing a new Spanish-language television commercial in the battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that lays the failure of comprehensive immigration reform at the feet of Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues -- despite the fact that Obama supported the bipartisan John McCain-Edward Kennedy efforts to enact such reforms and voted for their final proposal last year.
That's got Obama surrogates and leaders of some Hispanic groups raising questions similar to those that have greeted McCain's English language spots, which have had their accuracy challenged by a number of media and independent group observers.
"Obama and his Congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants," the ad's announcer says in Spanish in the spot, released Friday. "But are they? The press reports that their efforts were 'poison pills' that made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies: Ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead."
In truth, Obama and many other Democrats publicly supported the efforts to enact immigration reforms started by Sens. McCain and Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 2005. Obama voted for last year's final bipartisan proposals, but faced criticism for sponsoring changes to a temporary worker program that later failed, and Senate colleagues described him as "notably absent" during negotiations.
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I really wish that McCain would develop some consistency on this issue. Before the Republican primaries he seemed to be pretty open about his more progressive views on immigration views, and then he became the human pancake during the race, trying to appeal to the red meat base, and now he's trying to make another switch. I genuinely just want to know what he truly thinks about it, otherwise he's just opening himself up for more attacks from immigration reform groups.
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