[GOPcapitalist]

McCaul supports securing the Mexican border, including the usage of National Guard, if needed.

I hope you are right and I hope any candidate for Congress would do the same. One big question remains in my mind though: why did he publicly and repeatedly use the PC terminology of "undocumented worker" to refer to illegals? I ask because there are only two types of people who regularly use that term, and neither is very desirable:

(1) Liberal PC nazis who want the illegals to vote for them in exchange for more welfare

(2) Republicans who want the illegals for cheap labor and need to sell that position to the party faithful in sugarcoated language.

Here's a question that I'd like to see McCaul and Streusand answer:

Will you commit right here and right now to joining Tom Tancredo's immigration caucus if elected?

If any of you have access to either candidate please ask them this and please ask them to make it public. Unfortunately I can't as I am the state until after the runoff.

If they answer as I desire them to do it will improve my opinion and probably that of most conservatives. Otherwise I have virtually zero reason to trust McCaul on this issue, especially in light of his "undocumented worker" freudian slip. Nor do I have much of a reason to trust Streusand on it, the only difference being a very uneasy benefit of the doubt in that he hasn't slipped up in public...yet.

[YCTHouston]

You've been repeating this "undocumented worker" line incessantly. When did you hear McCaul use it? How many, if any, CD10 forums have you been to?

I've only been to one specifically CD10 forum, and other GOP events where the candidates have been, I've listened to all the commercials, seen most of the print material, and the ONLY place I've seen or heard the "undocumented worker" line was in a post by a Streusand/Deevine supporter.

If I've missed something in McCaul's literature or on his website where he discusses "undocumented workers" at length, please feel free to correct me. Otherwise, it's kind of silly to turn that into a mantra. Strikes me as reminiscent of the rumor-mill campaign in the general primary.

[esarlls3]

I accept the posted reports of McCaul's use of "undocumented worker" as I trust those posting here are honestly reporting what they heard.

I forwarded the question about Tancredo's Immigration Caucus to McCaul earlier today and will post the response when I receive it.

[esarlls3]

McCaul on Immigration:

• I oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.
• I believe the border patrol and INS have failed their fundamental responsibility to control our borders - I will lead a reform effort to beef up the border patrol and improve the effectiveness of the INS. It is just too easy for illegals and terrorists to slip across the border.
• I have called for the deployment of the National Guard during times of emergency and we should have a national debate about the on-going use of the Guard on the border to supplement the Border Patrol until the Patrol is ready to fulfill its obligations.
• I am the only candidate in this race to investigate, arrest and deport illegal aliens as part of a security sweep called Operation Tarmac at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.