EDITORIAL - Rosanna Pulido found out about the closed door meeting between Republican presidential candidate John McCain and a group of Hispanics through a local newspaper, made a call to one of McCain’s public contacts, and attended the event. What she heard at the event disgusted the Hispanic conservative.

“He's one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he's a different John McCain in front of Hispanics,” she remarked afterwards over the meeting. "He's having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear. I'm outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative."

Our politicians are telling us that we are fighting a War on Terror, while none of them seem willing to address one of the surest ways for terrorists to infiltrate our nation, the borders – “outraged” doesn’t even begin to describe what politicians like John McCain are doing to this great nation of ours. Washington is making us less safe by ignoring true immigration reform and pulling wool over the collective heads of the American people in the process.

The meeting room was filled with slightly less than 200 people and the crowd cheered and applauded with every utterance of “comprehensive immigration form” by McCain. McCain said that he understands where the American people are coming from.

“I bet some of you don't know this”, he said, “…did you know Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English?” The crowd erupted. Pulido says McCain is throwing them under the bus.

If it makes you feel any better, it is not only you who is being thrown under the bus. The American people as a whole are being duped into thinking our politicians have our best interests at heart. They truly believe that McCain and Obama are making us safer with their respective policy differences. But with an open border and a broken immigration control system, our nation will never be truly safe. It will rest vulnerable as terrorists from all walks of life can easily infiltrate this nation as easy as walking across our border – or hitching a ride from a friendly.

The truth of the matter is the “Global War on Terror”, a term cleverly coined by President Bush, will continue to be a sham until the government takes a more hard-lined approach to fixing our immigration system, deporting illegals and heavily fining businesses that hire or protect illegal immigrants.

I certainly hope that Americans can only live with wool over their heads for so long. Eventually this nation will have to deal with this problem once and for all, and it probably won’t be under pleasant circumstances.