McCain's Response to DA. ref: e-mail from his staff member

I e-mail McCain's office with my Bio, and received below in qt/unqt from his D.C. Office on Oct 1, 2010:

QT
Dear Mr. ....

Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 729, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2009. I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this issue.

As you may know, the DREAM Act would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to apply for conditional permanent resident status if they entered the United States prior to their 16th birthday and have been present in our country for five years prior to the enactment of the legislation. It also requires that a young person meet certain eligibility requirements, including being of good moral character. No one would be eligible who is inadmissible or deportable under criminal, security, smuggling, or illegal entrant or immigration violation grounds. In order to obtain permanent status within the United States, these individuals would have to either attend college or enlist in the military.

While I recognize that the young people who would be covered under the DREAM Act entered our country as children and the decision to illegally enter was not theirs, I also know that the majority of the Arizonan’s that I have heard from want us to secure the border before considering immigration legislation. Until the border is secured, I do not believe Arizonans would support any efforts to reform our immigration laws.

S. 729 was introduced on March 26, 2009, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Please be assured that I will keep your concerns in mind should this legislation be considered by the full Senate.

Again, thank you for contacting me. Please feel free to contact me on this or any other issue of concern.

Sincerely,


John McCain
United States Senator

JM:ds
UNQT

Seems he is neither a yay or nay, with come campaigning believe we can get his support.

He never even read your email. His staffer replied back to you to show his superiors that he does his job. Neither him or McCain care for our lives. I'm really glad McCain/Palin are not president/vice president. Thank God!

You'll have to wait until McCain wins the election before he works on immigration reform again.

Follow up with specifics on what "securing the border" entails, and what benchmarks are being used to determine whether the border is secured or not.

Don't let the cowards hide behind their words.

What if all Dreamers just started their own grassroots project a.k.a a corporation that creates wealth and boost our local economies? Let's just bypass the politics...

McCain will most likely support/vote for DA after his re-election is secured. He's just not enough of a Maverick to stand on DA on principle grounds.

His re-election is secured, polls show him with a 20% point lead, and there is no way Arizona is voting a Democrat for the Senate. I don't think he would vote for Dream Act, even in the lame duck session.

Unfortunately I can't shake the feeling the that Arizona law managed to polarize an entire state by sort of forcing the hispanic vote out of the equation. First it forced the undocumented to flee the state, then businesses that catered to the hispanic started seeing their profits and customer base plummet and finally there is the law that targets and burdens the hispanic people which we all know are not the only undocumented immigrants in this country, they just happen to represent the majority. The result is a state with an anti-hispanic law that is stressing USC hispanics to the point that they may decide to leave the state and favor more hispanic friendly states.

The issue that I see with all this is that we may see something similar to the state of Wyoming, where a relatively small portion of the country (the state has a population just above 0.5 million) selects a senator that has the same weight as another senator selected by a much larger population, thus also having the potential to polarize the senate. I worry senators are jumping on this law to ultimately eliminate their worries of the hispanic vote.

but maybe I am just being irrationally paranoid.

Unfortunately I can't shake the feeling the that Arizona law managed to polarize an entire state by sort of forcing the hispanic vote out of the equation. First it forced the undocumented to flee the state, then businesses that catered to the hispanic started seeing their profits and customer base plummet and finally there is the law that targets and burdens the hispanic people which we all know are not the only undocumented immigrants in this country, they just happen to represent the majority. The result is a state with an anti-hispanic law that is stressing USC hispanics to the point that they may decide to leave the state and favor more hispanic friendly states.

The issue that I see with all this is that we may see something similar to the state of Wyoming, where a relatively small portion of the country (the state has a population just above 0.5 million) selects a senator that has the same weight as another senator selected by a much larger population, thus also having the potential to polarize the senate. I worry senators are jumping on this law to ultimately eliminate their worries of the hispanic vote.

but maybe I am just being irrationally paranoid.



Can you summarize this.

Why do you people want McCain so much? leave the guy alone, we don't want him, and we don't need him...