Mark: I don’t expect you to support McCain’s views on immigration, but your reading of his quote is extremely ungenerous. An “opportunity” to come to the United States as an immigrant does not equal a “right” to come here. Conservatives, of all people, should understand the difference between rights and opportunities.

I couldn’t find a link to the Tucson Citizen article via Google, but I did track it down on Nexis. Here’s relevant part, which is from a news story about a candidate debate:

“Opening the borders to all migrants from Latin America would preclude people from other parts of the world from finding a better life in America, McCain said.
“Those who live closest are the ones who can get here,” he said. “Everyone in the world should have the opportunity through an orderly process to come to this country.”

I wish the article had more detail, but judging from this, what McCain said doesn’t strike me as a crazy, open-borders statement or anything.