The American Pundit

Update: One more feather in Johnny’s amnesty cap, as Sen. Mel Martinez will endorse him this afternoon.

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Did the man take How to Get Your Base to Hate You 101, or is he just naturally this good? First of all, as a Republican, what do you do when you secure the endorsement of the New York Times? Answer: Hide it and pretend it never happened. John McCain: It’s time to flaunt it!

Next up, as a major proponent of amnesty, how do you convince your base that you’re serious about securing the borders? Answer: Any thing but this.

Dr. Juan Hernandez, McCain Hispanic outreach director: “We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”

That’s right. Dr. Juan Hernandez, one of the most open-borders proponents every, is now the director for Hispanic outreach for John McCain. This is a man who insisted that any securing of the borders was racist, and closed-borders proponents were equivalent to Nazis. Perhaps his level of open-border advocacy needs to be impressed further.

TANCREDO: I had a great argument one time with a gentleman by the name of Juan Hernandez who was at that time the minister of that ministry that I just mentioned, the Ministry for Mexicans Living in the United States.

And I asked him that very question. What he told me the purpose of his ministry was to push people into the United States, it was to—by the way, it was also AFC work with them so that they did—he was with the community, he said. He was three days a week in the United States, four in Mexico.

By the way, he himself is a dual citizen born in Texas, university—teaching at the University of Texas and on the Vicente Fox cabinet. And he said, “I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don‘t want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they‘ll continue to send money home.”

And I said to him, that does not sound like—you know, you‘re doing something that‘s actually the act of an unfriendly government.

CARLSON: Well, of course, it doesn‘t in any way serve American interests. It undermines our country in a pretty direct and direct and obvious way.

TANCREDO: Tucker, his response. Let me tell you his response.

CARLSON: Yes.

TANCREDO: At the end he goes, “Congressman,” in an incredibly condescending way. He goes, “Congressman, it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a region.”

The man doesn’t think the U.S. and Mexico are two different countries, but one region.

And now he’s McCain’s Hispanic outreach director. Heckuva job, John.