LA Times noted McCain touts his work on immigration bill as appealing to Latinos -- but not that he no longer supports it

Published: March 5, 2008, 4:02 pm

In a March 5 article about Sen. John McCain's general election strategy, the Los Angeles Times reported that, in "recent days, McCain has frequently emphasized that he will try to win California" and his advisers "believe his work on the controversial immigration legislation that included a path to citizenship for many of the nation's illegal immigrants will provide an inroad to Latino voters, particularly in the Golden State." But the article, by staff writer Maeve Reston, did not mention the fact that McCain no longer supports "the controversial immigration legislation" (the so-called "McCain-Kennedy" bill) -- McCain now says that border security must be addressed before any other reforms can be made, and has said he would vote against his own comprehensive immigration bill if it came to the Senate floor. While McCain once supported "controversial immigration legislation that included a path to citizenship," he has since reversed his position, now asserting that

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