 Both candidates support an eventual path to citizenship for illegals |
Both McCain and Obama addressed a conference of Hispanic some 700 people attending the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Washington, DC both were looking to cater their favors but underlined different points:
Obama, "admired Mr McCain's attempt last year to get an immigration reform bill approved by Congress...But he said that Mr McCain had since walked away from that commitment." Obama said, "We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day."
McCain said, "I know this country... would be the poorer were we deprived of the patriotism, industry and decency of those millions of Americans whose families came here from Mexico, Central and South America." But added, "that his primary focus regarding immigration reform was to secure the United States border with Mexico." BBC reports that, "Mr McCain's speech was disrupted several times by hecklers from an anti-war group."
Source: BBC. "U.S. rivals clash over immigration." BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7479651.stm Published: 2008/06/28
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