McCain Must Appease both Hispanics and Conservatives on Immigration

On the morning of June 5, 2007, in a packed firehouse in Gilford, N.H., Fergus Cullen watched Arizona Sen. John McCain getting “hammered on immigration” in a back and forth with locals angry over the influx of illegal workers. “They kept coming back to it again and again,” says Cullen, the state’s GOP chairman. To little effect, McCain defended his immigration bill that gave a path to citizenship to many of the country’s estimated 12 million illegals.

That night, CNN beamed McCain’s struggles into homes nationwide from a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. His chief rivals, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, took turns slamming McCain’s bill, cowritten by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy. McCain’s rejoinder that America is “still the land of opportunity” fell on deaf ears.”*

*From: http://www.usnews.com
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