Boston Globe editorial praises McCain’s “fighting stance” on immigration bill
On Thursday, the Boston Globe editorial page devoted a commentary to praising Senator McCain’s willingness to buck the GOP base on the immigration issue. Here are some key excerpts:
McCain is soaked in the immigration issue. This has become a burden on his presidential ambitions, for he is fighting an ugly nativist streak in his own party. But he has made a principled stand on an issue that, he said, goes to the heart of “what kind of nation we are.”…
“It’s a matter of national security. You can’t have 12 million people walking around,” It’s also a humanitarian issue, McCain added, since the 12 million lack legal protection and are easily exploited. Illegal workers have little recourse when denied their pay.
McCain spoke movingly of the hundreds of people who die trying to sneak across the desert…
Some of the reaction McCain has encountered, fanned by talk show hosts and the Internet, has been brutal. McCain is a Vietnam war hero, yet people showed up at a fund-raiser with signs branding him a traitor. It’s the kind of virulent opposition that McCain finds “so disappointing.”
Read the entire editorial here.
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