RIP Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), a former prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict who was the Republican nominee for President in 2008, yesterday lost a long fight with brain cancer.  

As a U.S. Senator from a border state, McCain had a long record on immigration.  McCain restates his case for overhauling the immigration system in “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations.” In a chapter titled “Fighting the Good Fight,”  McCain praises U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), his late colleague and collaborator on comprehensive immigration reform in the mid-2000s.

McCain’s memoir’s final plea for immigration reform made the news.   Besides arguing for immigration reform, McCain criticizes border hard-liners, such as President Donald Trump, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Rep. Steve King of Iowa.

In the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama supported a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants (and comprehensive immigration reform) while McCain did not.

KJ