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Immigration Radical? “John McCain said not everyone in the U.S. illegally should be deported”

By immigrationprof

Mccain AP reportsthat Senator John McCain has staked out a “radical” position on immigration (at least in the current political climate with among others Rudy Guiliani and Mitt Romney fighting it out to be the toughest on immigrants) :

“Suggesting compassion, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said not everyone in the U.S. illegally should be deported.

“If you’re prepared to send an 80-year-old grandmother who’s been here 70 years back to some country, then frankly you’re not quite as compassionate as maybe I am,” McCain said Wednesday in response to a question from a Clemson University student who described himself as the child of legal immigrants.”  (emphasis added).

KJ