[IMMIGRANT’S LIST reports]  Last week, Congressman Lamar Smith from Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote an Op-Ed in Politico that should make everyone working for immigration reform take notice. Rather than lay out a plan to address the unsustainable immigration system in this country, he uses the words “amnesty,” “illegal-immigrant lobby” and “open-borders crowd” (24 times by our count) to scare readers.

We’ve included the text of the article from Politico.com.  When you read it, do what I did — ask yourself: “Okay, what’s your plan? How do we fix our broken system?”

We concur with immigrant’s List, “Governing means being responsible. But too many elected officials think screaming “AMNESTY” over and over passes for honest debate. They’re loud and they’re going to use every scare tactic in the book to get re-elected. Don’t let them get away with it. With your help, Immigrants’ List will work to elect members of Congress in 2010 who actually want to tackle the problems we face, and who actually want to govern.”

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When John McCain was championing for immigration reform in 2007, never did he think it would place him in the position he is in today.

With only 21 days left until the 2008 Presidential Election, John McCain is positioning himself to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin, well below President George W. Bush’s 2004 performance.

Polls have positioned Senator Obama winning the most amount of Latino voters of any Democrat in more than a decade, while McCain is sitting at a dismal 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole’s horrid 1996 result than to Bush’s historic 40% four years ago.

McCain is carrying quite a bit of baggage on both arms, as he appears to be getting no credit from Latino voters for his past support for immigration reform, while in the other hand he treads slowly with the built up hostility of the Republican Party’s take on illegal immigration.

And his attacks on Obama for immigration reform have been non-existent, who was once thought to have taken a lethally liberal stance by supporting granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

And as the four states with the largest Hispanic populations take center stage, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, what was once a ray of hope for Senator McCain has emerged as a clear weakness.

For more information on McCain’s cold shoulder turn to Hispanics:

Read this article by Ben Smith from Politico.com