McCain's Record On Amnesty

For those of you intending to vote for John McCain on Tuesday, NumbersUSA posts a summary of his record on illegal immigration and amnesty over the past three years [emphasis mine]:

McCAIN: WEAK ON SECURING THE BORDER & ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS
* 2006- Sen. McCain voted against extending the border fence in the Sessions Amendment (2) to H.R. 5441.
* 2006- Sen. McCain voted to prevent the border fence from being built by voting in favor of the Manager’s Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
* 2006- Sen. McCain voted to allow illegal aliens to receive Social Security by voting to table the Ensign Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
* 2006- Sen. McCain voted against funding additional immigration investigators by voting against the Sessions Amendment (1) to H.R. 5441.
* 2005- Sen. McCain voted against providing funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents by voting against the Byrd Amendment to H.R. 1268.

McCAIN: THE AMNESTY KING FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
* 2007 – Sen. McCain was heavily involved in the backroom negotiations of S. 1348 with Sen. Kennedy and Pres. Bush – this was an amnesty (permanent residency & path to citizenship) for more than 10 million illegal aliens.
* 2007 – Sen. McCain cast several votes to protect the amnesty in S. 1639 and to move the amnesty toward a vote.
* 2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 774, the DREAM Act. The bill would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens under the age of 30.
* 2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 340, the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 (AgJOBS). This bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal agricultural workers.
* 2006- Sen. McCain voted in favor of S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. This bill would have awarded amnesty to 10.2 million illegal aliens.
* 2005- Sen. McCain and Sen. Kennedy introduced S.1033, an amnesty for virtually all illegal aliens.
* 2005- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 239, the AgJOBS amnesty.
* 2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 1645, the AgJOBS amnesty.
* 2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor the S. 1461 amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

Do you really think he has suddenly 'heard the message' from the American people? McCain was not just supporting all of these pro-illegal alien and pro-amnesty efforts, he was leading them! With a track record like this, and with several of his current top advisers being total open-borders hacks, can you honestly believe him when he says he's going to secure the borders and drop the amnesty bit?

If you do, I have some land in the Atlantic Ocean that I'd like to sell you!

McCain is simply telling people what they want to hear to pull their votes. He has no intention of keeping these promises, and I would bet a whole lot of money that if McCain does win in November, we'll see a whole new amnesty bill (probably worse than his previous comprehensive one) get pushed on us almost immediately. There was just one thing preventing him from getting all of these things done over the past three years: the Republican base. Republicans are overwhelmingly against McCain's amnesty efforts, and that is just one of the many critical issues on which McCain is actually much more closely aligned with the Democrat party.

This also bothers me because it's pure politicking, and McCain appears to have ditched his reputation for being a straight talker because he's so desperate to win. I have to ask myself, if he's willing to lie to me about amnesty, what else is he lying to me about? Can I trust anything he says now?

Vote Romney on Tuesday.

There's my two cents.