Will Joni Ernst Have a similar epiphany? If “secure the border first” is her position then why isn’t she saying that forcefully, extensively and in the same breath tying Braley to Obama and amnesty and virtual open borders?
From Gary Bauer writing at Campaign for Working Families:
Senator John McCain seems to have had an epiphany on immigration reform. Yesterday the senator told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto:
“The fact is our southern border is not secure. They [ISIS] have already announced on Twitter and on Facebook that they want to do everything they can to attack the United States of America. So if the southern border is not secure, obviously that would be one of the avenues to achieve that. And which leads me to believe that we have to have … control of the border … before we move forward with comprehensive immigration reform. This new ISIS threat has really heightened, in my view, the necessity for a secure border which we don’t have.”
With all due respect to Senator McCain, many conservatives have been making that very point for years. The first obligation of government is to provide for our national defense and that begins by securing our borders.
