What an embarrassment it is for Arizona to have John McCain as its senior senator for all this time. There are the years of promoting permissive immigration and his promising as a presidential candidate to work for amnesty starting “the first day” in that office . Now he is moving on to refugee rescue.

McCain’s latest is using the photo of the dead Syrian kid to demand this country take in more refugees, despite the obvious national security threat from a population that cannot be properly vetted.

Plus the administration changed screening guidelines over a year ago so more Syrians could be admitted, including those with terrorist connections. Another problem is the new popularity of fraudulent Syrian passports so any Middle-Eastern-looking person can claim to be a victim refugee.

Furthermore the story about the drowned boy has unravelled considerably since the media raised a big squawk about it a week or so ago. Apparently the family members weren’t fleeing for their lives from Syria, but left safe Turkey seeking more money and dental implants for the father in Europe. Or something like that.

Senator McCain appeared with his open-borders pal Senator Graham on the Fox News morning show Saturday, where Tucker Carlson asked the questions about the push from elites to force many thousands of Syrian refugees on Americans. Incredibly, Graham twice dragged out the old Statue of Liberty canard to make his point, as if the 19th century work of art (titled Liberty Enlightening the World) has anything to do with immigration or refugee policy.

Both senators maintained they wanted to keep out the jihadists, but had no specifics about how that might be accomplished in a situation of so much chaos and fraud. Not reassuring.