Posted on 04/30/2010 12:34:38 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
One-time moderate Arizona senator keeps step with the Tea Party and gets tough on illegal immigration.
John Ladd points to the piles of empty water and Coke bottles, a yellow blanket and numerous other bits of debris abandoned on his cattle ranch in Cochise county, near Tombstone, Arizona. The sprawling estate, stretching 10 miles along the US-Mexico border, is a favoured route for those making the illegal, dangerous and often fatal, journey to what they hope is a bright new future.
Ladd recalls waking up one morning in 2004 and finding about 900 Mexicans milling about on his land. "You could not go anywhere without seeing one and the border patrol was screeching around everywhere," he says.
This is Wild West country, a land of mesquite and sagebrush, of Apache trails and re-enactments for the tourists of the OK Corral shoot-out. The ranch, and other crossing points like it, lie at the heart of the immigration debate that has gripped the US over the past week. That debate is anchored to Arizona's controversial extension of police powers in dealing with immigrants.
Already the subject of international attention, it is threatening to consume one of America's best-known politicians, John McCain, former PoW, senator for Arizona, and Republican choice for a doomed campaign against Barack Obama in 2008.
McCain is up for re-election for a fifth term in the Senate and the resurgence of the immigration issue is potentially disastrous.
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Ladd, who voted for McCain in the past, now feels betrayed and is not planning to support him in the Republican primary in August.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“MeCain feels warm fluid going down his leg, but nobody notices...”
Somebody forgot to take McCain outside to pee on the grass.
Oh I think John reserves that process to be done on Conservatives.
;-)
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