is wrong. John McCain. A president versus a senator: doesn't seem like a fair fight. Unless that senator is John McCain." When the president went to Capitol Hill in May to address the Senate Republicans, McCain accused the president of misrepresenting Arizona's Draconian new immigration law (which McCain had endorsed, and which Obama's Justice Department was preparing to challenge). 10-point plan to secure border; then try legal-worker deal McCain talked about his 10-point plan to secure the border, saying only after that happens can the country address a temporary legal-worker program. "If we don't secure the borders first, we will find ourselves with another group of people who have come to this country illegally, and then we'll have to do it all over again." Glassman said that while he supports securing the border, it won't work unless there is a way for people to cross legally for work. 2007 immigration bill split Republican Party A policy debate about which he cared greatly, and for which he was catching major flak/ The issue was immigration reform. With Bush's support, Congress was taking up a proposal in spring 2007 that would allow a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. In late May, McCain stood alongside Ted Kennedy and announced his support for the bill. Just tone down the rhetoric, his advisers pleaded. McCain refused. He was disgusted by Republicans in Congress and talk radio gasbags such as Rush Limbaugh who bashed immigrants. "They're going to destroy the party," he would say.