{"id":1258,"date":"2012-04-09T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:54:15","slug":"fair-op-ed-gop-dream-act-is-bad-policy-and-bad-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/04\/09\/fair-op-ed-gop-dream-act-is-bad-policy-and-bad-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Op-ed: GOP DREAM Act is Bad Policy and Bad Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, some congressional Republicans have been promoting the idea of a GOP alternative to the DREAM Act in the hopes of capturing Latino voters in the fall. <\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2012\/04\/06\/opinion-gop-dream-act-is-bad-politics-and-bad-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Latino website<\/a>, I explain why such a Republican DREAM Act bill shares all of the flaws of the Democrats\u2019 proposal and would likely not produce the political pay-off its sponsors hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, some congressional Republicans have been promoting the idea of a GOP alternative to the DREAM Act in the hopes of capturing Latino voters in the fall. In an op-ed published on the Fox News Latino website, I explain why such a Republican DREAM Act bill shares all of the flaws of the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/04\/09\/fair-op-ed-gop-dream-act-is-bad-policy-and-bad-politics\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[1513,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[405,157,454],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}