Related Columns SALT LAKE CITY, June 26, 2013—If John McCain was up for re-election in 2014, nobody would be talking about immigration reform. In the mid-2000s, Sen. McCain was an enthusiastic proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, having sponsored a bill with Ted Kennedy and later backing a different bill sponsored by Harry Reid. Those bills did largely what the current Gang of Eight bill attempts to do. SEE RELATED: Obama Democrats don’t want border security “Complete the danged fence,” he famously said in a primary race television ad just a few years later. McCain, though eventually winning quite easily, was feeling pressure at the time from J.D. Hayworth, who...
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