{"id":1662,"date":"2012-08-22T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:26:16","slug":"sen-durbin-tries-to-intimidate-az-gov-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/08\/22\/sen-durbin-tries-to-intimidate-az-gov-brewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Durbin Tries to Intimidate AZ Gov. Brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) used his campaign to send out a petition (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/Durbin_email_082212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">email here<\/a>) to tell Governor Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) to \u201creverse her position now.\u201d Durbin, the author of the failed DREAM Act, says Brewer is \u201cstanding in the way\u201d of President Obama\u2019s new amnesty for illegal aliens under 31 years of age. <\/p>\n<p>Durbin claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-august-20-2012%232\" target=\"_blank\">Brewer&#8217;s executive order<\/a> requiring state agencies to uphold state law and continue to bar illegal aliens from receiving state benefits and IDs is just \u201cwrong.\u201d Well, Senator Durbin, you\u2019re the one who is wrong. Wrong for trying to intimidate a state into using taxpayer dollars to fund benefits for illegal aliens and wrong for advocating for unlegislated federal policy over laws passed by Congress. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to being flat out incorrect and misleading, Durbin\u2019s email is also illuminating. Despite the Obama administration\u2019s repeated assurances that the deferred action amnesty for illegal aliens is merely temporary, Durbin called it \u201ca clear path towards citizenship.\u201d So, the amnesty lobby is showing their hand. The Obama administration never planned to keep this amnesty temporary \u2013 illegal aliens\u2019 political bullies won\u2019t let them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) used his campaign to send out a petition (see email here) to tell Governor Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) to \u201creverse her position now.\u201d Durbin, the author of the failed DREAM Act, says Brewer is \u201cstanding in the way\u201d of President Obama\u2019s new amnesty for illegal aliens under 31 years of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/08\/22\/sen-durbin-tries-to-intimidate-az-gov-brewer\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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":[5,3,1513,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[612],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9731,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}