By Glenn Spencer

We have bent over backwards to give John McCain the room to define his position on illegal immigration. When he announced that he would secure the border before addressing the issue of amnesty and a guest worker program we thought it held promise. The jury is still out on this question.

There is another issue, however. Tomorrow McCain is scheduled to speak before the National Council of La Raza. This is a new moment of truth.

With the recent release of a video that attacks the freedom of speech of loyal Americans who oppose illegal immigration, NCLR has stepped over the line. In May we had said that we would wait to see what McCain would say at the NCLR meeting.

With the release of a video that appeals to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a most virulent anti-American organization, as an authority, we have changed our position.

We were disturbed when McCain dragged Senator Lindsay "shut the bigots up" Graham along with him to Mexico. We are disturbed that an economic advisor, Phil Gramm, was one of the major forces pushing amnesty for illegal aliens.

And he continues to hang on to Juan Hernandez as an advisor, a true Mexican Reconquista.

But with the weight of evidence overwhelmingly supporting the proposition that NCLR is a fifth-column (The term also refers to a subpopulation assumed to have loyalties to countries other than the one in which they reside), working to subvert the government of the United States, an appearance by McCain at their annual meeting would legitimize their attack on FAIR, CIS, Numbers USA and The American Patrol Report.

If John McCain speaks before NCLR tomorrow and does not condemn them as the subversive group that they are, he will shed any semblance of loyalty to the United States or the truth and should be repudiated by all Americans.