Senator John McCain Attacks Republican Opponent in Senate Race for Being Extremist
Published July 20, 2010 by:
JON C. HOPWOOD

Criticizes J.D. Hayworth for Ties to Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee

Gheen and ALIPAC then issued a press release reiterating their charges that the allegedly closeted homosexual Senator was a victim of political blackmail.

Lindsey Graham had repeatedly denied he is gay, most recently in a New York Times profile.

Illegal Immigration

John McCain is a conservative Republican who proved himself a maverick in his 27 years in Congress as he wasn't afraid to work across the aisle with Democrats. He was first elected to the Senate in 1986, inheriting the seat of conservative warhorse Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP Presidential candidate and then-doyenne of the conservative movement.

One of those issues in which he crossed the aisle was on creating an amnesty program for illegal immigrants now in the United States that would open up a pathway towards citizenship. It is a policy originally proposed by former President George W. Bush, a darling of conservatives and even reactionaries. However, compassion for illegals is unpopular now in Arizona and it may endanger McCain's political future.

J.D. Hayworth in Congress opposed Bush 43's proposed temporary worker program for illegal aliens and was a proponent of a crackdown on illegal immigrants. At the time, he charged that Bush was too close to agribusiness and thus supported amnesty for illegals to keep agribusiness supplied with cheap labor from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Hayworth and Joseph J. Eule, his Congressional chief of staff, wrote a book about illegal immigration in which they claimed that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution did not convey citizenship onto the children of illegal immigrants, a dubious position legally. The book, Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror, was printed in 2006 by the right-wing press Regnery Publishing.


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