Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and commentator, blasted deceased Sen. John McCain in an anti-immigration speech she gave Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“And yes, I’m looking at you, the ghost of John McCain,” Malkin said to a standing ovation after blaming GOP party leadership, including former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for not dealing with what she described as an immigration crisis.
McCain, who was a senator of a border state, advocated for compromises on border security which included more fencing but also a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and a beefed up foreign-worker program. Malkin took aim not just at illegal immigration but also the H-1B visa program which brings in foreign high-skilled workers.
CPAC hosted a 20-minute discussion earlier in the day with National Review’s Rich Lowry and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on the importance of border security. Malkin called the panel insufficient.
Malkin got fired up when addressing criticism that she was a grifter. “It’s the GOP sellouts, not just the radical open-borders Left that is in bed with immigration saboteurs,” said Malkin. “Those are the real grifters.”
Her criticism of immigration policy follows Republicans and Democrats in Congress passing a compromise bill to avoid another government shutdown, which failed to provide for the $5.7 billion in requested border wall funding by President Trump.
