The Center for Immigration Studies is outraged that GOP presidential hopeful John McCain has appointed someone who worked with the Mexican government to direct his Hispanic outreach effort. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Defa ... x?id=65871

The biography on Juan Hernandez's website says he was born in Texas of a Mexican father and a Texan mother -- therefore holding dual citizenship. Hernandez also served on former Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet -- the only U.S.-born person to do so. And a campaign spokesman for Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has now confirmed that in November, Hernandez was named -- as an unpaid volunteer -- to direct the campaign's Hispanic community outreach in several states.

But Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies says there is a much bigger problem than the fact that Hernandez worked for Fox. He recalls what Hernandez said on ABC's Nightline back in 2001. "He wants Mexicans in the United States to think Mexico first always," Camarota points out. "So not only is he like McCain and doesn't believe in borders and enforcing the law and so forth, but McCain has picked someone who seems to dislike this country intensely."

Camarota says the appointment leaves little doubt about what McCain would do on the border security issue, should he become president. "There's every reason to believe ... he will work to get citizenship for as many illegal aliens as possible," warns Camarota. "And enforcement is not likely to be a very important component of his approach."

One has to wonder, says the legal immigration advocate, if McCain has offered the former Mexican high-level government official a position in his administration if he is elected president.