DNC lies; reminds us that they support amnesty (McCain's immigration flip-flops)

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) offers a press release (link) called "DNC: The Five Sharpest Turns of the Double Talk Express: Immigration" about supposed flip-flops on the issue by John McCain. By chiding McCain for flip-flopping on his "principles", they remind us that the Demcratic Party supports "immigration reform", aka a massive amnesty. And, in general, there's little difference between the position of the Democratic Party, John McCain, and George W. Bush on this issue: they all want a massive amnesty, the only question is how they're going to get it. The DNC press release tries to pretend that they aren't on the same page as Bush:

"John McCain's double talk express has taken more turns on immigration than a carnival tilt-a-whirl," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Luis Miranda. "Nobody wants a third Bush term, but that seems to be all McCain is offering with his lack of candor on issues like immigration."

Bush has, of course, been quite candid about his support for illegal immigration and a massive amnesty; instead of vilifying him, the Democrats should be quite grateful to him for allowing millions of potential Democrats to come here.

There's also at least one lie:

In August McCain co-sponsored "a scaled-down proposal" that would not "include a path to citizenship," and even more stunningly, would criminalize immigrants. [AP, 8/2/07]

Later in the press release, they indicate that it wasn't intended to apply to "immigrants" but to illegal aliens:

AUGUST 2007: MCCAIN BACKED CRIMINALIZATION. McCain backed criminalization to save his struggling Presidential campaign. According to the AP, "Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday backed a scaled-down proposal that imposes strict rules to end illegal immigration but doesn't include a path to citizenship... Among other things, the bill makes being in the country illegally a criminal misdemeanor and toughens penalties for re-entering after being deported." [AP, 8/2/07]

Thus, that's not just a minor point, it's a lie. They also quote from the Ron Claiborne/ABC News article recently discussed here without, of course, discussing how Claiborne allowed McCain to mislead.

Immigration2008a · Wed, 01/02/2008 - 11:01 · · Importance: 1