Problems? What Problems?

Cross posted from Common Sense America

By Christi S. King

The 2008 presidential campaign is going to be very good for this country, especially when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration. Why? Because it is going to force the candidates to crawl out from under their cozy little D.C. rocks - and slither among - We The People. And it seems, according to the NYT, that We The People are already giving them an earful:

Immigration, an issue that has divided Republicans in Washington, is reverberating across the party’s presidential campaign field, causing particular complications for Senator John McCain of Arizona.

The topic came up repeatedly in recent campaign swings through Iowa by Mr. McCain and Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, another Republican who, like Mr. McCain, supports giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, a position that puts them at odds with many other conservatives. Both candidates faced intensive questioning from voters on the issue, which has become more prominent in the state as immigrants are playing a larger and increasingly visible role in the economy and society.

“Immigration is probably a more powerful issue here than almost anyplace that I’ve been,” Mr. McCain said after a stop in Cedar Falls.

As he left Iowa, Mr. McCain said he was reconsidering his views on how the immigration law might be changed.

But McCain wasn’t alone in his get-your-head-out-of-your-butt revelation as Senator Sam Brownback was also hammered on the issue:

On Saturday morning in Des Moines, Mr. Brownback stood for 30 minutes at a breakfast with Republicans as question after question — without exception — was directed at an immigration system that Iowans denounced as failing. “These people are stealing from us,” said Larry Smith, a factory owner from Truro and a member of the central committee of the state Republican Party.

Finally, Mr. Brownback, with a slight smile, inquired, “Any other topics that people want to talk about?”

No. We would really like to get some answers as to why you, and the rest of our elected officials, have abandoned the American citizen by refusing to enforce our immigration laws.

Of course, we all know the answer.

John, at Illegal Aliens Must Go, points out that elitists like Bush, and many of our elected officials, are blind to the problems the American citizens are facing as a result of the massive influx of illegal aliens into our communities because it doesn’t affect them. Their children attend private schools that have not been overrun with non-English speaking children, their homes are in elite areas where the only contact they have with illegal aliens are the ones mowing their lawns or mopping their floors, and their jobs are not affected, so John points out:

In other words, to elitists like George W. Bush, greedy business people, and Democrats, the deterioration of America will be virtually invisible.

But the greatest strength of our democracy is that once every four years, these elitists must stand before, and be judged, not by a jury of their peers - as they are in Washington, D.C. - but by the people of America. And that, my friends, is where the rubber meets the road.

Senator John McCain stated,

“Immigration is probably a more powerful issue here than almost anyplace that I’ve been,” Mr. McCain said after a stop in Cedar Falls.

My guess is that McCain, Brownback, and the other Republican candidates, are going to begin to feel as if they are stuck in some sort of crazy Groundhog Day scenario as they continue on their little trip to reality across this nation. City after city is going to grill them about their views on this issue and they will, hopefully, begin to realize that Cedar Falls is not only in Iowa, it is Anytown, USA.

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