McCain Revives Immigration Debate -- in Spanish Only

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By Ed O'Keefe

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 ...

"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" ...

"The Latino community has been watching this issue very closely," says Cecilia Muñoz, a senior vice president with National Council of La Raza who notes that immigration legislation failed because a majority of Republican senators voted against the measures ...

"What's interesting about this contrast is that it represents a real shift, and I'm not sure it's a shift that Latino voters are going to buy," Muñoz said today on a conference call with reporters designed specifically to respond to the McCain ad ...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/15/mccain_revives_immigration_deb.html

[davepc]

1. Ohhh...lets send the English translation of this ad to the Repub base...q

the ones who call him McShamnesty for his "sham" amnesty bill. and hate his position on immigration.