Oh course he would:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday implored President Barack Obama not to take unilateral action on deportations and to instead give Republicans an opportunity to address immigration reform once the new Congress convenes in January.
"I literally am pleading with the president of the United States not to act," McCain said on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "Give it a chance. We have a new Congress. We have a new mandate. Let's let the House of Representatives decide if they want to move forward with immigration reform."
After promising to take executive action on immigration by the end of the summer, Obama delayed his plans until after the midterm elections. He told reporters on Wednesday that he would act "before the end of the year" and that he has legal authority to grant deportation relief to a yet unspecified number of undocumented immigrants.
McCain, an advocate of immigration reform and a member of the "Gang of Eight" senators who helped shepherd a comprehensive bill through the Senate last year, said he believed Republicans would act on an issue imperative to the party's chances to retaking the White House. - Huffington Post, 11/6/14
Yeah, I have a hard time believing that GOP can actually get immigration reform passed. But with guys like McCain coming into power, they'll be more eager to get this passed:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
The Republican victory in the 2014 midterms is less than 24 hours old. But already, the hawkish wing of the GOP is planning an ambitious battle plan to revamp American foreign policy: everything from arming Ukraine’s military to reviewing the ISIS war to investigating the U.S. intelligence community’s role in warming relations with Iran.
In an interview Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has already discussed a new national-security agenda with fellow Republicans Bob Corker and Richard Burr, the likely incoming chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
“Burr and Corker and I will be working closely together on everything,” McCain said. “For example, arms for Ukraine’s [government], examination of our strategy in the Middle East, our assets with regard to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in the region, China’s continued encroachment in the South China Sea.”
You could call it the neoconservatives’ revenge or the year of the hawks. But it has produced an interesting moment in Washington, where even the dovish side of the Republican Party now acknowledges the midterms were a win for their party’s American exceptionalists.
As Ron Paul, the isolationist father of Sen. Rand Paul, tweeted Tuesday evening: “Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!” William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, was in rare agreement with the elder Paul. “I think Ron Paul told the truth,” Kristol told The Daily Beast. “And the truth is that his son had a bad election season and the Republicans who were elected are various species of hawks and not Rand Paul-like doves.”
Those hawks include some new faces in the Senate like Tom Cotton, the Republican from Arkansas whose campaign was boosted in its final month with ad buys from Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel. - The Daily Beast, 11/5/14
And America's least popular Senator is looking to get another term in 2016:
http://www.abc15.com/...
Republican Sen. John McCain says he's preparing for a strong primary challenge if he moves ahead with a re-election run in 2016.
McCain met with longtime supporters at a Phoenix hotel Thursday to discuss his plans and said afterward he's leaning toward a run for a sixth term in 2016. That's the year he turns 80.
McCain says he always plans for a very difficult campaign with good competition because history shows incumbents who take anything for granted put their re-election chances in jeopardy. - AP, 11/6/14
I for one would like to make this McCain's final term in the Senate. Yes, Arizona is red but has the potential to be a Purple State. I'll be looking forward to see which Democrats step up to the plate. Looking at you Gabby Giffords and Richard Carmona.