{"id":13611,"date":"2017-02-09T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13611"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:01:15","slug":"why-support-immigration-reduction-ask-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/02\/09\/why-support-immigration-reduction-ask-bill-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Support Immigration Reduction? Ask Bill Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"
Newly introduced legislation by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) would reduce legal immigration by nearly half. This proposal is likely to be portrayed by open border supporters and business interests as draconian and anti-immigrant. But, you don\u2019t have to search far to find support for these reforms from national figures with liberal credentials.<\/p>\n
Foremost among those figures was former U.S. Representative (D-Texas) Barbara Jordan. She was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and two-time keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention as well as chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (USCIR). Her role in leading that multi-year study was noted by President Clinton at her funeral.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter I became President, I asked her to chair the United States Commission on Immigration Reform. And she made us listen again when she reminded all sides on that delicate and difficult issue that we must remain both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.\u201d<\/p>\n