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Not only are they fed up with McCain, but apparently pretty much everyone else who''s involved in this "guest worker" fiasco:

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Angry with McCain
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com

With lawmakers from the House and Senate yet to reconcile their competing immigration bills and President Bush still touting a temporary worker program, some rank-and-file defenders of the border are lambasting the notion that deporting illegal aliens is impractical.

Moreover they view anything that smacks of amnesty as a betrayal to those who have risked their lives patrolling the borders.

The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) union represents the U.S. Border Patrol''s 10,000 non-supervisory agents. The largest local of the NBPC is Local 2544, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona - a busy sector accounting for more than half of the 1.15 million illegal aliens apprehended last year by the Border Patrol.

Local 2544 members serve on the front lines, and they are hopping mad with the administration and with some lawmakers in particular.

Mike Albon, Local 2544''s public information officer, told NewsMax, "All the comments on our Web site are the opinions of the Local and can be taken as the Union''s point of view."

To say the least, the Senate bill''s gradual amnesty program for many who have crossed the border illegally is unpopular with Local 2544:

"We strongly oppose any attempts to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. We have risked our lives to keep them out of this country. The slick politicians can call it ‘guest-worker'' or ‘earned legalization'' all they want, but it''s amnesty."

‘Amnesty John'' McCain

Particular union vitriol is reserved for the man they call "Amnesty John," who voted for the Senate bill. "Amnesty John" is the union''s handle for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

"Senator McCain has never been a friend to rank-and-file Border Patrol agents," says the union. "He routinely ignores correspondence from Border Patrol agents and often gives the impression that he is just too big and too important to deal with us. He attempts to undermine our mission at every turn and actively supports the criminals who violate our laws. He always tries to downplay the fact that illegal aliens knowingly and willingly violate our laws."

According to Albon, the root of the rank-and-file frustration is that McCain and others who want a road to citizenship for some of those already unlawfully in the country are at best unrealistic when it comes to the paperwork burden of proving who was where and when: "Your government is nowhere near being capable of handling all those claims.

"They will buckle at the slightest hint of pressure from any activist/social services group. They will issue waivers like candy to any illegal alien who says he or she can''t afford the ''fines'' levied by the government. They will accept one fraudulent document after another. The entire thing will be mass chaos."

-SNIP-

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