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McCain: Illegal immigrants intentionally cause car accidents

By John Byrne
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 -- 9:21 am

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Sen. John McCain has taken a hard turn to the right.

In an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, McCain threw his support behind what appears to be the nation's stiffest immigration law in Arizona -- and even took it one step farther.

McCain said that undocumented immigrants are a threat to American citizens because they are intentionally causing car accidents.

“It's the drive-by that -- the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway," the onetime Republican presidential nominee told O'Reilly.

“The state of Arizona is acting and doing what they feel they need to do in light of the fact that the federal government is not fulfilling its fundamental responsibility to secure our borders,” McCain added. "Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe."

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McCain's Senate spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan told an Arizona newspaper that "McCain was talking about vehicles carrying illegal immigrants that are involved in dangerous, high-speed law-enforcement pursuits."

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu at a Washington, D.C., news conference where McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., announced their new 10-point border-security plan:

Buchanan pointed to comments made by an Arizona sheriff who claimed that high-speed chases of illegal immigrants were endangering lives.

“We’ve had numerous officers that have been killed by illegal immigrants in Arizona,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Washington, DC reporters at a press conference organized by Republican senators. “In just one patrol area, we’ve had 64 pursuits -- failure to yield for an officer -- in one month. That’s out of control.”

Remarked the New York Daily News, "For most lawmakers, DWI stands for “driving while intoxicated.” For Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), DWI stands for “driving while illegal.”

McCain appears to be veering toward more conservative positions as he faces a tough Republican primary for his Senate seat this fall.

Transcript follows the below video clip.

O'REILLY: Now, next week, the governor is going to sign, we believe, a very stringent state law that gives the police in Arizona very, very broad authority to question people. And a lot of people say it's going to be racial profiling. You're going to look for Hispanics, question them, to see if they're here legally or not. And it's just not fair. And you say why?

MCCAIN: I say that the federal responsibilities have not been fulfilled. Therefore, the states are acting -- the state of Arizona is acting and doing what they feel they need to do in light of the fact that the federal government is not fulfilling its fundamental responsibility to secure our borders. Our borders must be secure.

O'REILLY: But what about the racial profiling? You know that's going to happen has to happen.

MCCAIN: I hope -- I would be very sorry that if some of that happens. And I regret it, but I also regret the -- really, it's not just the murder of Robert Krantz. It's the people whose homes and property are being violated. It's the drive-by that -- the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway. Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe.

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  2. OldAtlantic

    How about introducing legislation to stop legal immigration? Then we might believe you.


  3. IcedTea

    Does McCain have any idea what he's even saying anymore?


  4. brother Joe

    McShame will say anything to get elected. He has no honor at all. Liberals cringed every time he called himself a “maverick” because he insulted the memory of Maury Maverick, an honest and admirable liberal from Texas. Of course that was when McShame had presidential aspirations. For re-election to the senate aspirations he claims he never considered himself a “Maverick”. If the memory is the first thing to go McShame isn't far behind.


  5. dennycrane

    ….and Navy pilots intentionally cause “Navy plane accidents.”


  6. dennycrane

    That's why you make them buy car insurance.


  7. struesdale1

    Will someone please gently escort this old man off the public stage, back home to some mansion somewhere, and out of our lives. He's just an embarrassment.


  8. Democratic_Socialist

    And POW's from Arizona grow microphone mouths when captured and sing like the fat lady sitting on a carrot. This traitor needs to be voted out of politics and put in a home for the criminally senile. Maybe Old Atlantic could be his roommate?


  9. Savantster

    McCrazy is at it again.. Whites, Blacks, Asians, all “people” can cause accidents on purpose. They do it when they want MONEY (or to hurt someone). To blame it on “illegal immigrants” is to belie what's causing it.

    And bitching about how the government isn't protecting our borders while ignoring what causes the problem in the first place is even more disgusting. NAFTA put a LOT of Mexicans out of work, our corn subsidies kill a LOT of Mexican jobs, our policies of making sure Americans can consume way more than they need and do it on the cheap is causing strife around the planet. .. but it's just like an ignorant little child to ignore the disease and try to keep treating symptoms. But I guess you have to expect that when you consider 1/2 the population is dumber than average and you have a large population… that's a lot of dumb people making policy.


  10. davewtf

    Well, is McCain wrong?


  11. michaelmcleary

    I normally think McCain is nuts, but here he is right. It happened to us 2 years ago.


  12. davewtf

    We had an a problem last year with people, mostly minorities, causing car accidents on purpose for the insurance money. And illegals driving to endanger as they try to avoid border patrol and police in general has to be considered a real issue.

    But you are correct in saying that we have to look at the how and why, and correcting that would help the situation.

    Of course, you cannot make that into a nice sound-bite, so it is a dead issue, politically speaking.


  13. chriswis

    He was misquoted again…he mumbles… what he really said was “Oh my god, in my pants I left a smelly, gross, farty accident” not “Illegal immigrants intentionally cause car accidents”.


  14. Phil E. Drifter

    I seriously doubt they're intentionally causing accidents, as this old coot claims. They're just trying to avoid being arrested.


  15. WilyArmadilla

    heh! And how exactly do you 'make them buy car insurance'? Take away their non-existant drivers licenses?

    Do you *really* think they give a good god d*mn about our laws or the safety of others?


  16. Phil E. Drifter

    Claiming they intentionally cause accidents, yes, I'd say he is wrong.


  17. chrislib

    Cancervative resluglicons intentionally steal all our money they can, waste the rest, then lie about it as often as possible.


  18. chrislib

    Which makes our citizens not safe from cancervative resluglicon criminals.


  19. davewtf

    Yet, in the eyes of the law, driving to endanger IS intentional.


  20. MYMY

    Put him out to pasture, and quickly! He must be going senile. What a sad end for a hothead, bullying type plane crasher to have to seek his 'crashes' on the backs of immigrants. I mean, he crashed five planes, he must be some kind of crash-fetishist.


  21. frantaylor

    The only reason people try to get into the US is because they know that they can find a Republican who will pay them under the table to mow their lawn or take out their garbage or raise their children.


  22. rhetoricus

    Unfortunately, driving to avoid the police often endangers other people.


  23. Dr_Cho

    It takes two cars and two drivers to create a high speed chase both of which endanger the public. Wouldn't road blocks be a little safer than these Hollywood heroics. The public spends a fortune on police toys and radio communications why aren't they using them.


  24. Corporate Indu$trial Complex

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    MCCAIN: ILLEGALS INTENTIONALLY CRASHING FORD MAVERICKS, THEN LYING ABOUT IT LATER
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  25. Hooker

    John McCain is the desiccated remains at what used to be a man. He has no values, no morality, no constancy. He will do or say anything, ANYTHING, if he calculates that it will earn him one more vote. He is a living corpse, pitiful, lacking a soul. He would have had a legacy to be proud of, if he had retired before cravenly picking a goofy idiot to be his side-kick in his presidential run, putting the country a danger. (Can anyone imagine the shape we would be in if S.P were president?) McCain is no longer a patriot. He no longer is a good American. He no longer is a good man.


  26. Igor

    When is this asshole going to pay us back for the FIVE jet fighters that he crashed during training and while in combat?


  27. sonny

    There is no way of knowing if Johnny Mac would actually suck a joint to win reelection; but it has become obvious to me he will say anything. The only thing he has left is his gargantuan ego.


  28. NewsPlease

    True. Why would anyone even bother reporting on what he says. But on the topic of bad people causing car accidents…………

    “The four were driving home from a volleyball game along the highway when a military convoy spotted them. After flashing their lights at the car, the troops opened fire, killing everyone in the car.
    The victims included two brothers, Faizullah and Nasratullah Mansour, and their cousins Maiwand and Amirullah Mansour.
    http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/21/nato-admits-...

    They were aged 11 to 17. After the murder, the US troops thought it best to lie about it and US media faithfully reported that four insurgents were killed by our brave troops fighting for freedom.
    Now that the truth is out, those same media (this place included) don't want to talk about it anymore. For some reason they feel that McCain brain farts are more newsworthy.


  29. Cabsarefab

    Nobody makes money by causing car accidents. There are urban legends about people intentionally getting hit by cars and suing, but that's the last thing an illegal wants to do in todays climate.

    McLame is just a senile old fart who probably needs a brain scan so he can be retired. Not that that will help because they will just replace him with an equally vile, younger dinosaur!


  30. CarlPagan

    John McCain is unfit for doody.


  31. johnbis

    Inasmuch as his “manhood”is now at knee level. On a par with Cheney's. Wht else could you expect from this coot. Rational discourse?


  32. CarlPagan

    John McCain is unfit for doody.


  33. CarlPagan

    John McCain is unfit for doody.


  34. hurlyburly

    Hahaha.
    You actually expect the devoted Obama crowd to give a flying fcck about those dead civilians?
    Give up. This is strictly a two minutes hate exercise where mindless fools shout and scream at McCain or Palin (or any right wing Goldstein of the day) and move on.
    Don't try to complicate their comfy little fantasy worlds where Bush is bad and Obama is good. They will just plug their ears and scream lalalalala.


  35. zinfoo

    Is anyone actually surprised? LOL

    Lou
    http://www.ultimate-privacy.at.tc


  36. westietra1

    I call bull shit on McCain comments that illegals are causing accident on the freeway in AZ .I travel them everyday and the people that cause the accidents are Idiots that think they can drive 100 mph mostly white republican .


  37. westietra1

    I call bull shit on McCain that illegals are intentionally causing accidents on the freeways .I drive the freeway every days the it usually a white guy driving 100mph that causes most accidents .


  38. allenallen

    Clearly, he was just befuddled and confused and did not mean that. I don't feel he's competent. It's pretty sad. I remember what he was like years ago. That picture of Bush hugging him back into the fold… saddest of all. McCain hasn't been the same since getting neutered.


  39. CREnvy

    Errr, what exactly happened to you?


  40. Brittanicus

    What Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has to say about Amnesty and Tax-Dollar Drain,

    Lamar Smith is the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee.

    Outside of the usual articles from Bloggers like myself and other opponents of illegal immigration, here is a very eye-opening correspondence by an insider of the Washington beltway. While others fudge the truth or downright lie or release rancid propaganda to the masses. Here are some bitter truths that this Representative from Texas is availing us of the ugly truth and the calamitous situation sending us into a black bottomless pit of American bankruptcy.

    Rep. Lamar Smith states:

    President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been talking about giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Tax Day seems like a good time to examine the impact that such a policy would have on your wallet.

    Start with education. Using the average annual American public school elementary and secondary education costs, the Federation for American Immigration Reform has estimated that the total cost of K-12 education for illegal immigrant minors and the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants is $28.6 billion a year.

    Then there’s health care. If illegal immigrants are covered in the health care bill (there is not a strong verification mechanism to ensure they won’t get benefits), it would increase the bill’s costs between $10-$30 billion. Of course, it won’t matter if illegal immigrants receive amnesty since the new law requires health care coverage for everyone.

    Social Security is another area of great concern. Claims by amnesty advocates that illegal immigration can “save” Social Security are false.

    Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) ran the numbers at my request. Here’s what they found: For a single 25-year old male with very low earnings, today’s value of his and his employer’s contributions to the Trust Fund will fall $15,596 short of the value of the Social Security retirement benefits he will eventually receive. A single female will receive $20,936 more in benefits than she pays into Social Security. If the immigrant is married but the sole wage-earner, the couple will eventually drain the Trust Fund by $52,460; if the immigrant is married to another very low earner, the drain on the trust fund will be $39,037. The legalization of one million illegal immigrant couples who work for very low wages would be a $101 billion blow to taxpayers. And amnesty for all illegal immigrants would multiply this figure many times!

    When it comes to taxes, amnesty supporters like to say that illegal immigrants will pay their “fair share” of taxes after being granted amnesty. This is deceptive.

    Low-skilled workers often pay no taxes and receive a check from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Putting illegal immigrants on the IRS rolls will actually cost the federal government money.

    Since most illegal immigrants have less than a high school education and have well below average incomes, even those illegal immigrants who pay taxes pay far less in taxes than they (and their families) consume in taxpayer-supported benefits. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation found that the average immigrant household headed by an immigrant without a high school degree receives over $19,000 more in total government benefits each year than it pays in federal, state and local taxes!

    But the impact goes far beyond these direct costs.

    There are nearly 16 million Americans out of work, and about 8 million jobs are held by illegal immigrants. By simply enforcing immigration laws already on the books, we could create millions of job opportunities for American citizens and legal immigrants who played by the rules and entered the U.S. the right way.

    Instead, the Obama administration has all but abandoned worksite enforcement efforts. Administrative arrests are down 87 percent; criminal arrests of employees are down 83 percent; criminal arrests of employers are down 73 percent; the number of criminal indictments are down 86 percent; and the number of criminal convictions is down 83 percent since 2008. This insults unemployed and underemployed American workers who need the jobs held by illegal immigrants.

    The hit is on your wallet! Illegal immigrants are a fiscal drain on American taxpayers. And the Obama administration’s policies only make it worse.


  41. brother Joe

    McBrainless thinks he's in the right because Sarah Palin told him all illegal immigrants drive Toyotas.


  42. Christian Soldier

    I am surprised. I had thought God was giving Glen Beck the plan, but wait it seems that McCain is getting a different vibe. McCain thinks God is calling for the incarceration of any Latino who drives a car, but of course, he's all full of regrets for the necessity of it, especially for his political convenience.

    Looks as if this might just piss off Latinos in AZ just enough to vote all these clowns out of the way. 2010 in AZ is not shaping up as the republicans had intended, but hey does it matter much now if the Tea Party wing is in-charge, or is that just the usual slog from the Murdochian wing of the lunatic fringe?


  43. Christian Soldier

    Do you mean to tell me that Glen Beck has been watching the recent South Park episode on exposure to microwave ovens?


  44. markusgarvey

    comment from crasheagle on Rachel Maddow blog:

    “I once spoke with a Blackfoot Chief. I asked him if he had any documentation or papers proving he was a Native American. He told me “no, but my dog has papers proving he is a dog”.


  45. kwertie

    Fuck that piece of shit McCain who stuck us with Sarah Palin.


  46. kwertie

    snore


  47. dennycrane

    That is great!!


  48. MadTom

    This idiot has jumped the shark, definitively.

    Definitely lowered himself to the level of Palin, Tancredo, and Hayworth.


  49. MadTom

    Lamar Smith is a bigoted, lying, racist piece of shit.


  50. markusgarvey

    there will be a shitstorm after they try to deport a Native American….it will happen too..


  51. MadTom

    So I guess that implies he's unflushable?

    Bummer.


  52. MadTom

    Yes he IS wrong. I represent enough Hispanics to know McCain is a lying, crazy old coot.

    And he is a pathetic, opportunistic coward, too. McCain didn't always talk this way about Hispanics.

    McCain has to out-crazy Hayworth — and he has his work cut out for him.


  53. davewtf

    Well, no-one can deny most of what you say. At this point, McCain is saying whatever he thinks he needs to say to win re-election.

    Now the question becomes, is he better or worse than Hayworth, and do they have viable Democratic or Independent challengers? If not, McCain may be the best of a bad field of candidates.


  54. NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Retire McCain.
    (please?)


  55. scytherius

    Couldn't have said it better myself.


  56. scytherius

    Agreed and agreed. McCain's take on it is astounding ignorance.


  57. tinao

    Johnny that's a third strike…YOU'RE OUT. Now, where's a progressive candidate to this TOTAL BS.


  58. dennycrane

    Wow! Is Gerry Spence going to be around to do this one?


  59. Jaime Frontero

    actually (and note that i'd rather eat iguana vomit than ever actually *vote* for mccain – or anyone like him), a few years ago, there were several organized rings of insurance fraudsters who were busted for doing exactly that: intentionally causing accidents. for insurance money, y'know.

    they traveled in packs of three vehicles, and would pick out a mark (nice new car, older driver, etc.) and box their car in, then swoop in – while the car in front (usually loaded with a family – kids, etc.) downshifted hard, causing a rear-end collision.

    as far as i'm aware – mind you, it's been awhile – these rings were all from south of the border.


  60. “Illegal immigrants intentionally cause car accidents” ahhh, so they can take advantage of wonderful american medical care or to clean up on the auto insurance? risk breaking body parts so i can get bandaged and dumped back out on the road. still clueless. mcshame the collaborator … when is someone either in america or vietnam gonna have the gonads to surreptitiously release his greatest hits radio show from the hanoi hilton. i'd love to hear them again. hey, panama john-john, we grunts in the field remember who you really are!


  61. markusgarvey

    i wouldn't doubt that he would try to get involved…definitely his cup of tea…


  62. “McCain said that undocumented immigrants are a threat to American citizens because they are intentionally causing car accidents.”
    Christ-ah-mighty, Sen. Walnut McCain is talking out his ass again. Drunk Amerikan drivers cause more accidents than anybody documented or otherwise. Sen. Walnut shows his 'racist' side for all the world to see.


  63. thebl00dhound

    And rethuglicans intentionally carry out terrorist attacks to scare voters into supporting them. Its a Freudian read-between-the-lines type of slip.


  64. sarum

    People in insurance investigations know that illegals make accidents on purpose so they can collect monies. And lots of them cross the border with that purpose alone in mind. Not racist, not hate speech, verifiable fact. So they do make accidents. Also I do believe that every human should have the right to earn a sustainable living wage. Likewise those of us who have paid into a social safety net should be able to receive the benefit of what we paid into rather than having it stolen from us by illegals and our government who gives it to them. And hello? They get paid massively more amounts of money than any citizen who has paid into the system could possibly ever get. If the illegals had remained humble and gracious this would be a tougher decision but our financial inability to continue covering their needs as well as our own combined with their militant prejudice, overt hostility and open criminality makes it a no brainer. They need to go home and their government needs to pay restitution to us. There have been articles about how Islam and US citizenship is incompatible – well the same goes for anybody who is militantly loyal to another nation – they don't belong here. I guess until you have to take your heart attack dad to a hospital 75 miles away on curvy 2 lane roads you will never understand what it is to have your social safety net stolen by the steady drip of illegals not paying but using it – hospitals bankrupted and closed. And hello? It's a war zone on the border. Just because our media does not cover it for you does not mean that it is not happening. And hello? If our media actually told the truth about ALL the murders committed by illegals constantly you would be shocked – and you would never hire an undocumented worker again either – from ANY nation. Principles before personalities and just the facts please.


  65. koolhed

    Yeah, you know this because the “Republican Detector” that you bought at Pep Boys goes off when you drive by them, right?

    White Repubs are the people who are REALLY causing all the collisions… and they don't have insurance, either.

    Brilliant.


  66. koolhed

    So true. It's all because of the drunk American culture that looks at heavy drinking as a “macho” thing to do. A “real American” loves guzzling mass quantities of Budweiser (in the can) almost as much as he likes slapping his wife around and leering at neighborhood pre-teen girls while attempting mechanical automotive work in the street in front of his home.

    Now THAT's the American culture that we've seen so much of.


  67. koolhed

    Good one! “Latinos voting”…

    Best joke I've heard all week.


  68. rs3678

    Here we go , same old politics again…he was in bed with immigrants when he needed the votes. Now he is against them. Listen up those immigrants that are listening to the tea party and GOP, stay away from these two faced politicians. They make you believe you count and then stab you in the back. Where is the scientific data that supports such a ludicrous assertment? Is like saying be careful flying in your small airplane because an immigrant my throw his car against you. I am retired military with 22 years in the Army and lost all my respect for this guy!!!!


  69. Robert

    People, the enemy here is not in mexico, there are bigger fish to catch and they are in Iran, Korea and Venezuela. What's up with this anti latino rethoric. They showed a town in Virginia this week on TV that the latino residents packed up and left because were feeling unwelcomed and the next thing the town is struggling and bankrupt, stores and restaurants closing left and right. Remember this if our cities become contaminated with Chemicals or radiation and a mass evacuation is ordered we will need a place to go and that could very well be Mexico so be careful what we ask for and don't be acting like we don't like anybody anymore.


  70. macdoc1

    I'm a Canadian who thinks we better secure our border with the U.S because you can't keep your own patch of land secure..


  71. OldAtlantic

    Earth Day 40 years on. The need for an immigration moratorium remains. But libs don't want that because they are for race replacement of whites. Destroying the environment to destroy whites is worth it to Libs.


  72. toborgo

    Senator McCain makes a good point that is easily remedied. Too many people are disgusted that their auto insurance payments are actually covering the damage and destruction caused by all unlicensed drivers, often driving dangerous and uninspected vehicles all over the US. A comprehensive sale tax on gasoline and diesel sufficient to cover the real cost to us would mean the end of rip-off car insurance rates. Let the users of the highway system subsidize its costs directly based on usage. The more you drive (and consume fuel) the more you should pay regardless of whether the vehicle or driver are uninsured or insured.


  73. indyman

    If the Good Loyal American Business Man did not hire Non-Americans to work there would be no Non-Americans working here.


  74. telegram

    I live in Minnesota/Wisconsin so I do not see how bad it really is down there. But McCain is a bastard. Or his father was a prick.


  75. telegram

    Quit growing good pot.


  76. telegram

    Quit growing good pot.


  77. Dick Tucker

    I also live in a house that straddles a state border, but mine is in New Jersey/Iowa and McCain is like my grandmother who started accusing people of stealing from her when her brain started malfunctioning around age 85.


  78. joshlynn

    And this Mook wanted to be president. It is time to haul you over to the dog track and then let you wander away, McShame.


  79. Femme Varie

    I'd venture to say this wasn't McSame's idea originally. It seems like something his buddy Sherriff Joe would come up with and support. Maricopa County's goon squad probably has too much time on their bloody hands and needs more people to terrorize.


  80. guest

    So glad he didn't win. With these remarks he sounds like a fascist idiot!


  81. speaktruth2pwr

    If you read what he says, Lamar Smith is simply attacking low-wage workers. It has nothing to do with immigrants, illegal or otherwise. Low-wage workers will eventually get more social security than they put in — that was how it was designed. It's a safety net, not a savings plan.

    What is relevant, but no one wants to mention, is that illegals right now DO pay into social security (it's withheld from their wages) but since they do not have a valid social security number they will never get the benefits. So right now they are helping – they are exploited to help – balance the books. If they become legal, if that exploitation stops, then they will get benefits from the fund they have been paying into all along.


  82. speaktruth2pwr

    I think you need some data. Yes, there is a well-known scam in which people (not necessarily illegals) fake an accident to get money. Is there any data which suggests this is more common among illegal immigrants than among citizens? (Remember, illegals will have far more difficulty using the court and insurance systems without getting deported).

    Second, illegals do NOT get back the social security money they paid — they do not have a valid social security number. Yes, they do benefit from our laws which say no one will be turned away from an emergency room because they are poor. But once again, you are complaining about poor people, not illegal immigrants.


  83. David in ABQ

    The ass-tard liberals with their collective heads up their butt…are in full force here!
    Not a single one of you numb-nuts even comment on the issue of the article. Illegal mexicans have been pouring into AZ thru Mexico for 20 years. The state of AZ is tired of it and is instituting tougher laws. End of story.

    But you nimrods would rather spend your time calling McCain names instead of focusing on the issues. Sheesh, just CLASSIC liberal crap.


  84. icenine

    There's not an illegal out there that intentionally wants to wreck his own ride. Total crazy horseshit. How sad that McStain feels the need to out-crazy his Republican opponent in the primary. That doesn't reflect well on the Republican voters of Arizona. In other words, no surprises here.


  85. icenine

    That house must be about 1500 miles wide if straddles NJ and Iowa.


  86. might want to watch that, if the good old american government respected the rules of true freedom and kept their hand out of the businessman's wallets, they would be able to hire american works at the cost that they need in order to turn a profit and provide services at the price that is competitive to the rest of the market (that are also hiring illegals, to get more business and be the 'cheapest')

    Keep in mind that, in the end, the government sticking it's hands where they don't belong is the real reason for anything, the pawns that are being played now are simply a distraction, it's like blaming the car, the road signs, and the wreckage, for a bad drivers accident.

    My $0.02…


  87. daviddavidsondavis

    LOL, I'm in your country using your Internet.


  88. Qubenna

    Did I miss something here?? Why would illegals cause accidents on the freeways to bring attention to themselves??? ——————————–> Reaching for McCain's common sense pills!


  89. azafvet

    YOU LIE! about everything.


  90. nikolai

    I have lived in AZ since 1985 and consider myself a moderate. The first thing I want to say is, let me tell you about the drivers in AZ. They are TERRIBLE. They come from all over the U.S., hell, all over the GLOBE, and bring their crappy driving laws (or lack thereof) with them. Sure some of the illegals are dangerous drivers, but hell, there are TONS of dangerous drivers out here! The Second thing I want to say pertains to the illegals. When the economy was booming out here a few years ago, 1500 new homes a month were being built and not a PEEP was made about the illegals because everyone loved the cheap labor. However, now that the economy is in the dumper, folks just got to have a boogey man, and the illegal is it.


  91. Rob PA

    I think his whole point was securing the borders. People who are smuggling in immigrants are causing accidents to throw off pursuit once the police are pursuing them. I do think he's a senile snot bag though.


  92. Bill Davis

    I love how everyone is taking McCain's comments out of context. He clearly states that the state of AZ is acting how they feel will bring them protection. He also states that moving forward it would be very unfortunate and sad of racial profiling occurred due to the proposed law. I think that McCain neither endorsed nor dismissed the law. I think he understands the reason why the state feels the need for a law like this, and it's because the federal government hasn't done what it's needed to do.


  93. XD

    John McCain is an old fart who just needs to retire. He sold out all of his beliefs and convictions to run for president and now doesn't even consider himself a maverick. he basically calls all illegal immigrants criminals. that is stupid. that is like saying all blacks are criminals. that is a stupid statement and i feel sorry for the people who live in the stupid state of arizona.


  94. Old Guy

    I don't know about Arizona and I don't know about now, but South Florida had an alleged problem similar in the early eighties exposed by the Miami Herald, or so I recall. Don't prejudge those who say there is a problem as biased until it plays out. It's allegedly bigoted to do that.
    Reason I recall was that I saw a professional acquaintance's name mentioned in the Central Florida press. The problem involved an alleged ring of professionals who allegedly made a living representing, litigating, evaluating, and treating injuries from alleged immigrants' alleged accidents.


  95. Hologram5

    McCain: My small bird-like brain makes me say stupid shit… :(


  96. Corrina

    JD HAYWORTH INTENTIONALLY HANGS OUT WITH CRIMINAL LOBBISTS.


  97. MadTom

    People as aged and infirm as John McCain cause a lot of car crashes.

    McCain has jumped the shark. He's gone. He can't out-crazy Hayworth, but he isn't clever enough NOT to ruin himself trying,

    McCain's chaotic, ADD, opportunistic, wishful-delusional-magical thinking streak — from whence Sarah Palin — is a mental weakness that will take him down.

    Moreover, he is about 60 days from becoming Charlie Crist, too.


  98. ericjohnson12

    I know someone who lived in San Diego, and exactly what McCain is explaining happened to her when she was getting off a freeway exit. It may not be as common as McCain explains it to be, but it happens. So he's not getting senile (and, btw, accusing him of such is blatant libel), people. This is age discrimination. He's doing fine, but things are going crazy in AZ right now and it's a lot to handle for every public figure. Plus, he's got the race against Hayworth right now, so he's campaigning. He's the true conservative, and he's proving it.


  99. [...] Non so su Arizona e io non lo so adesso, ma nel sud della Florida ha avuto un problema simile pretesa nei primi anni Ottanta esposti dal Miami Herald, o almeno così mi ricordo. Non pregiudica quelli che dicono che c'è un problema come parziale fino a che non gioca fuori. E 'presumibilmente bigotta di farlo. La ragione mi ricordo è che ho visto il nome di un conoscente professionista di cui la stampa della Florida centrale. Il problema comportato un presunto anello di professionisti che avrebbe fatto una vita che rappresenta, nelle controversie, valutare e trattare le lesioni da incidenti presunti immigrati presunto '. URL articolo originale http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/mccain-illegal-immigrants-intentionally-causing-car-accidents/comme... [...]


  100. [...] Je ne connais pas l'Arizona et je ne sais pas maintenant, mais la Floride du sud a eu un prétendu problème similaire dans les années quatre premiers exposés par le Miami Herald, ou si je me souviens bien. Ne préjugent pas de ceux qui disent qu'il ya un problème comme biaisé jusqu'à ce qu'il se joue. Il aurait fanatiques de le faire. Raison je me souviens que j'ai vu le nom d'une connaissance professionnelle de cité dans la presse centrale de la Floride. Le problème concernait un présumé réseau de professionnels qui auraient fait une vie qui représente, en litige, l'évaluation et le traitement des blessures causées par les accidents immigrants présumés prétendu. URL article original: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/mccain-illegal-immigrants-intentionally-causing-car-accidents/comme... [...]


  101. [...] border, build 700 miles of fence, and increase Customs and Border Patrol agents. Also, John McCain appeared on the O’Reilly Factor in support of SB 1070 and declared that undocumented immigrants [...]


  102. [...] No sé por Arizona y yo no sé ahora, pero el sur de Florida tuvo un supuesto problema similar en los años ochenta expuestos por el Miami Herald, o al menos eso recuerdo. No prejuzga los que dicen que hay un problema de parcial hasta que se juega. Es intolerante supuestamente para hacer eso. Razón por la que recuerdo fue que vi el nombre de un conocido profesional mencionado en la prensa de la Florida Central. El problema que implica una supuesta red de profesionales que presuntamente se ganaba la vida que representan, litigando, evaluar y tratar las lesiones por accidentes de inmigrantes presuntas alegado. URL del artículo original http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/mccain-illegal-immigrants-intentionally-causing-car-accidents/comme... [...]


  103. Patriot

    Screw the illegals and their kids. Who really cares about them. They can go back to whatever country they live in and earn their right to be here. I don't care if they are poor, I don't care if they are hungry. I don't care if they can't get medical attention. It really isn't my problem. You know why? Because I am a citizen and I can't get medical care, sometimes I can't afford to eat, and yes I am poor. I do not get government assistance, oh, i'm white, I don't deserve it. I do no want it any way, I would rather work and earn my keep and not violate the law doing so. I do not want to read my menus in spanish or have to learn spanish to go to Miami or San Francisco. I want to speak english everywhere I go in my country. I do not care for the illegal day workers eyeballing my wife in walmart like she is a piece of meat because they want an american woman instead of their stank foreign women. I am tired of it, tired of the liberals who feel sorry for them. Who gives a shit about them, take care of your own first before you give a handout to everybody else, do you not care about your own people? Apparently you would rather give to everyone else before your own. Would you feed your kids first or the illegals living next door and make your children starve. I think you would feed your own first. And as far as the mexican president trashing the new Arizona Law. Really who the hell is he to comment? Get your own country straightened out before you make any comment about our business. It;s none of yours, shut it. The only thing we have gotten from mexico recently is illegals and crime anyhow.


  104. [...] [. . . la frontière], construira 700 miles de la clôture, et d'accroître les douanes et agents de patrouille frontalière. En outre, John McCain est apparu sur The O'Reilly Factor à l'appui de la BS 1070 et a déclaré que sans-papiers [immigrants. . . ] URL article original: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/mccain-illegal-immigrants-intentionally-causing-car-accidents/comme... [...]


  105. [...] In an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, Senator John McCain threw his support behind what appears to be the nation’s stiffest immigration law in Arizona — and even took it one step farther.  McCain said that undocumented immigrants are a threat to American citizens because they are intentionally causing car accidents.  Wait…What?!?  Now I’ve heard a lot about them taking our skilled labor jobs like landscaper and restaurant diswasher, but this is the first I’m hearing of their sinister traffic plans.  Please continue Mr. McCain, because I want to hear more about your crazy old man conspiracy…“It’s the drive-by that — the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway,” the onetime Republican presidential nominee told O’Reilly.  “The state of Arizona is acting and doing what they feel they need to do in light of the fact that the federal government is not fulfilling its fundamental responsibility to secure our borders,” McCain added. “Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe.” Coincidentally, this is almost exactly what the heads of Native American tribes began to say when they noticed troves of white-eyed visitors infiltrating their land. According to a spokesperson for McCain, the Senator was referencing the high speed pursuits with law enforcement that sometimes result from the transportation of illegals.  “We’ve had numerous officers that have been killed by illegal immigrants in Arizona,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Washington, DC reporters at a press conference organized by Republican senators. “In just one patrol area, we’ve had 64 pursuits — failure to yield for an officer — in one month. That’s out of control.” (Via) [...]


  106. chris

    I personally dont care if they racial profile or not. Theres how many illegal mexicans and how many illegal of other races? yeah exactly If you need a figure why dont you go here so you can see the breakdown. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the...) Why wouldnt you racially profile. Bottom line is if all states do this and the illegals leave willingly, no one will have to be racially profiled. Better yet our government will hopefully stop stripping us of our rights and maybe (wishful thinking i know) things can be like they were long ago.


  107. [...] wait, maybe that’s what Senator McCain was getting at when he said that illegal immigrants are deliberately causing car accidents! I certainly can’t think of any rational reason that anybody — particularly someone [...]


  108. R. Hanley

    They intentionally cause accidents to get insurance payouts. That is why insurance rates are so damn high in AZ. Not to mention the billions of dollars spent on their health-care, their education. We treat them better than our own homeless citizens, many of whom are Vets.


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