Sen. John McCain has endorsed a tough Arizona anti-immigration bill that will let police arrest people who aren’t carrying identification, the latest move in McCain’s rightward shift in advance of a tough Republican Senate primary this summer.
“I think it’s a very important step forward,” McCain said Monday. “I can fully understand why the legislature would want to act.”It’s a dramatic switch for a senator who supported comprehensive immigration reform with Democratic lion Sen. Ted Kennedy D-Mass. just four years ago. McCain is facing a primary challenge from the right in former Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
Immigration reform advocates were bewildered.
“He risked his political career for immigration reform, and now he is compromising his principles to fight for his political life,” said Frank Sherry, executive director of America’s Voice and a longtime immigration reform advocate.
via John McCain tacks right on immigration – Kasie Hunt – POLITICO.com.
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