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McCain on immigration May 22, 2008
Who are the "american people" that McCain claims to represent in this video? While he claims to have a universally-supportive population for his anti-immigration stance, it seems like many people who have strong roots in this country will be further marginalized by the position that he is articulating here.
McCain tries to push his position as having near-universal support, but in the end his repeated claim that he is backed by "the American people" as a whole just seems to be an often-resorted-to mechanism to cover elitism and continued unjust treatment of certain populations by claiming that a certain homogeneous group can possibly be considered as "the American people."
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