Immigration Reform: McCain

Immigration Reform Dept: Apparently nervous about a primary challenge from an anti-immigration Tea Party candidate eyeing his job, McCain's sudden hard line represented a dramatic turnaround from the Arizona senator's record in Congress, where he championed unsuccessful immigration reform bills in 2007, according to Montreal Gazette. McCain is now serving as one of the Republicans' most vocal proponents for a sweeping immigration overhaul. He was one of the key architects of a bipartisan deal reached in the U.S. Senate this week that calls for a path to citizenship for millions of the country's illegal immigrants and wASHINGTON - Three years ago, as mid-term congressional elections approached in the United States, John McCain blamed home invasions and murders in the American southwest on illegal immigrants, urging federal officials to build "the danged fence" to keep them out. What a difference a presidential election makes one in which the overwhelming majority of Hispanics, the country's fastest growing voting bloc, cast their ballots for Barack Obama, despite the president's own inaction on immigration reform. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.