McCain balances stance on immigration

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | September 23, 2008

“I knew if I took on the issue of illegal immigration, I knew it would hurt me in my party,” McCain told an Irish-American town hall meeting Monday in this city often described as the country’s most heavily Irish. “I believe we have to have a commitment — because it’s a national security issue as well as an economic issue as well as a humanitarian issue that we enact comprehensive immigration reform.” On his northeastern Pennsylvania trip, McCain pointedly denied coattails to a controversial immigration critic who has become one of the best Republican prospects to pick up a U.S. House seat in a largely Democratic year. Lou Barletta, the mayor of nearby Hazleton

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