McCain Called Out On Immigration
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ABC News's Jake Tapper spoke today with Rosana Pulido, the Illinois Minuteman Project head quoted in the AP story on McCain's meeting last night with Hispanics in the Chicago area. Pulido said that McCain gives different immigration stances when speaking to "white Republicans" and Hispanics.
An excerpt from Tapper's post:
"I have friends in Washington, DC, on this issue," she says. "We've had conversations on this issue." After comprehensive immigration reform was killed in the Senate and McCain changed his rhetoric on the subject on the campaign trail, Pulido says, "we were hopeful after John McCain started saying, 'I understand where the American people are coming from, there's gotta be enforcement first,' we thought great, he's had a change of heart."
So she went to the meeting, a room full of 150-200 people. "Sure enough," Pulido says, "his mantra at the meeting was comprehensive immigration reform.' And there were cheers and applause whenever he mentioned comprehensive immigration reform."
"Then he said, 'I bet some of you don't know this -- did you know Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English?' And the crowd roared. I was appalled," Pulido said. "He was pandering to these people -- that's what they wanted to hear."

