Some of his comments.

“I never knew the border as a limitation; I’d be delighted if all of us could come and go between these two marvelous countries.”

“We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States…We are a united nation.”

Mexican immigrants “are going to keep one foot in Mexico and are not going to assimilate.”

“We are betting that the Mexican population in the United States …will think Mexico first.”

McNut,s reasons for Amnesty

McCain’s God,s Children Argument!
Then there is they are all God,s children argument(Another McCain favor) well isn’t everyone God,s children? If so then guess McCain is saying everyone and anyone has the right to Invade this Nation, waving their flags, demand their rights, while feasting at the trough of public welfare and Kill, Rape and Rob thousands of American citizens each year! There are 100,s of millions probably billions from India, China, Africa, etc. that would like to immigrat to the USA. If it ok for Latinos to pour across our borders then unless the open borders crowd are racist it should be ok for any and all of the world people to invade this nation!

McCain’s Lettuce Argument!
There’s the “lettuce” argument — we’ll be paying $50/head (or starving)( McCain really likes this argument) if we don’t have illegal aliens working in the fields. As Phil Martin, ag economist at UC Davis shows, the field labor cost in a $1 head of lettuce is about 6 cents. Triple those wages and Americans will do the jobs. (They’re not career positions. They’re seasonal jobs for young people, starting in the world of work. I have did similarly menial jobs.) And you’ll be paying 10% more for lettuce and other produce. Do you spend $1,000/year on produce? OK, you’ll pay $100 more.

There are approx. 20 to 30 millions Illegal Aliens in the USA less than 2% work in the fields but 43 % are on Welfare. If you count their Medical cost and Educating their Spawn at a cost of 7 to 10k per year to American Tax payers as Welfare then close to 100% are on Welfare that American poor and middle class pay an average of 20k per year so the rich have a unlimited supply of slave labor and the Democrats the Welfare vote!

The lettuce argument also parallels that for the retention of slavery.

Immigrant Argument!
There’s the “everyone’s an immigrant except for the ‘Native Americans’” argument. Well, the American Indians didn’t sprout from the land, they came across the Bering land bridge from Asia. So if the criterion is “You’re an immigrant if you had an ancestor who immigrated here,” then American Indians are immigrants, too.

In that case, “immigrant” is no longer a useful word, since Everyone’s an immigrant.

Stole Southwest Argument!
There’s the “the U.S. stole the southwest” argument. Well, the land in dispute was “owned” by Spain for a couple of centuries. Then by Mexico for about 25 years. During these periods, there weren’t more than a few thousand Spaniards or Mexicans in the entire territory. It’s been owned by the U.S. for about 160 years now, much longer than Mexico’s reign. And the U.S. has actually done something with the land, made it habitable for tens of millions. As Robert Kaplan has described, the difference between American and Mexican “twin cities” straddling the border is like night and day, yet the land is obviously the same. It’s not the dirt that’s important, it’s the people. Put another way, if culture didn’t matter, Mexico and Central America would be paradise.

Illegal pay taxes Argument!

There’s the “illegal aliens pay tons of taxes” argument. Sure, they all pay real estate taxes (in rent) and sales taxes (most states). Those working on the books (typically using stolen Social Security numbers) pay FICA and, perhaps, income taxes. But they’re mostly ill-educated and low-skilled and pay very low taxes connected to their working — in fact, most claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, i.e. negative income tax! If a family with both parents working has two kids in school, that’s at least $15k/year just for schooling, way more than the taxes on, say, $35k/year aggregate income.

Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation has done the systematic accounting on all this. A typical household headed by a low-skilled illegal alien is a net drain of about $20k/year for the rest of us, year after year. (Low-skilled Americans are a similar burden, but they’re part of the national family, not gate crashers from other societies.)

Illegal Bad..Amnesty good Argument!

There’s the “illegal immigration is bad, but make them citizens and problem solved” argument. Nope. If that were the case, legalizing (i.e. amnestying) the illegal aliens would solve the problem. But they’d still be (on average) low-skilled workers whose burden on the rest of us would continue. In fact, once legal they’d be able to access more public benefits programs, so their cost to the rest of us would actually rise substantially. In short, most of the problems of mass illegal immigration are shared by mass amnestying them.

The flood of immigrants drives wages and living conditions in our central cities toward those of the Third World.

- The influx imposes both sprawl and gridlock on our metropolitan areas.

- Immigrant families needing services overwhelm our schools, taxpayer-funded health care facilities, and other public agencies.

- Those requiring services don’t assimilate and, instead, expect to be served in their native languages.

- American civic culture frays as each ethnic group establishes its own grievance lobby and pushes for preferences.

- Communicable diseases such as tuberculosis (new, drug-resistant strains) return.

- Shortages of water and other resources loom, especially in immigration-blitzed Southwest.

Most that come across our open borders come from countries where, Crime, Corruption, Poverty, Misery, Anti-education, and hate for Americans has existed for centuries and is normal. Should anyone be surprised they bring those same family values across the border with them?

Dolph mentions a third party. It seems to me that a third party of conservatives could be viable at this point in time. I’m a life-long Republican and I have had it with them. I’d vote for a conservative Democrat in a heart beat, but they don’t exist anymore. The Libertarians appeal to me on some levels, such as limited government, but their stance on legalizing drugs and some other social issues turns me off. I think most Americans are for a fiscally responsible government that is most concerned with the US first. We want the laws we have to be enforced, and we want politicians to be more like public servants and less like celebrities and royalty.

As far as these two apologists running for President, I think it’s important that we not let eiother bamboozle us into thinking that other issues are more important or that there is some urgent reason to give our vote to either of these tools. I know some of you are tempted to think that McCain is better than Obama, so he can implement his 100-year plan in Iraq and so forth, but McCain is Mr. Amnesty, plain and simple. I plan to vote a write-in for Lou Dobbs.

The operative word is CONGRESS. This is where the focus should be - where the laws are made … or not made.

My district is a give away for illegal aliens, with representation by Webb and Moran - both pro amnesty. However, we have a Senate seat open that needs to be filled with a pro-American representative.

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On the flip side though - as the Obama - Juan move into full campaign mode, slash and burn (but in a nice way) is starting to become evident.

Perhaps one day we may actually see a viable Independent Party that will give the Democrats and Republicans a run for their money.

Sounds good to me. His VP candidate should be Senator Kosher Pickle.

My number one concern in this next election is the Supreme Court. Obama will pick the most activist liberal judges possible - for heaven’s sakes there’s already been talk of Hillary getting a slot! There will be at least two appointments from the next President - it must be McCain making those choices.