Flight Pundit

Senator John McCaint is playing the word game now. What a tool he is.

Americans need to have a national discussion about immigration issues, but first they have to refine their vocabulary on the topic, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday in Scottsdale. “I’ve seen kind of an ugly side to this debate,” he told about 300 people at the Mayor and City Council Breakfast meeting.

Hmm I wonder if he’s read this…which has posted at several blogs.

In particular, McCain is troubled by the use of the terms “illegal alien” and “amnesty.”

“Illegal alien” suggests that the 11 million to 12 million border crossers in the United States came from another planet, he said. He prefers the term “illegal immigrant.”

“These are human beings, who came here for the same reason our forefathers came here,” McCain said. Workers from Mexico and elsewhere are drawn by economic opportunity.

“Amnesty” suggests a policy under which offenders are forgiven and exempt from punishment. That mischaracterizes any of the immigration proposals being considered in Congress, McCain said.

He prefers the term “earned citizenship” to describe provisions in the bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

Earned citizenship?? Now thats a new one. I bet he used this term from now on.

No matter how you say it, an illegal criminal is just that. They come here illegally and therefore they are criminals.

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