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McCain Still Dogged by Immigration Issue

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | February 25, 2008 

When Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., campaigns in Iowa this week, sooner or later, he will surely be asked at a town hall event about one issue that has bedeviled him for months: illegal immigration.

It comes up at almost every stop, no matter what state he’s in — Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan or South Carolina.

It was the first question at the final event of that same long day.

For many Americans, especially conservative Republicans, immigration is one of their most important concerns and a key determinant of whom they’ll vote for in the primaries.

Immigration Issue
For many of those same voters, McCain — co-sponsor of the immigration bill that died in Congress earlier this year — is on the wrong side of the issue.

The McCain-Kennedy bill — there’s nothing like coupling your name to Ted Kennedy’s to automatically enrage some conservatives — would create a path to so-called earned citizenship for some of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. To some voters, earned citizenship for someone who came into the country illegally is tantamount to amnesty.

These days, when questions about immigration are asked, McCain says he “got the message.”

“The message is the American people want the border secured,” McCain told the woman who asked him at the event in Weare, N.H., about his stand on “illegal aliens.”

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