{"id":2072,"date":"2012-12-03T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:37:15","slug":"redstate-com-nails-it-immigration-policy-is-about-picking-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/12\/03\/redstate-com-nails-it-immigration-policy-is-about-picking-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"RedState.com Nails It: Immigration Policy Is about Picking Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2012\/12\/02\/house-passes-stem-immigration-reform-racialists-go-crazy\/\" target=\"_blank\">A RedState.com blog<\/a> effectively takes the ethnic advocacy network\u2019s opposition to eliminating the so-called Visa Lottery to task, calling their arguments \u201cequal parts stupid and noxious.\u201d In particular, they cite a statement by Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) asserting that our immigration policy has no business picking and choosing immigrants based on any objective assessment of which ones are most likely to benefit our nation.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, FAIR strongly supports elimination of the Visa Lottery but opposes the STEM Jobs Act cited in the RedState blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/news\/house-immigration-bill-increases-foreign-stem-workers-hurts-americans\" target=\"_blank\">for very different reasons<\/a> than Rep. Gutierrez. Nevertheless, we applaud the folks at RedState for pointing out the obvious: Choosing people who are best equipped to succeed in our country is precisely the purpose of our immigration policy \u2013 or at least it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RedState.com blog effectively takes the ethnic advocacy network\u2019s opposition to eliminating the so-called Visa Lottery to task, calling their arguments \u201cequal parts stupid and noxious.\u201d In particular, they cite a statement by Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) asserting that our immigration policy has no business picking and choosing immigrants based on any objective assessment of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/12\/03\/redstate-com-nails-it-immigration-policy-is-about-picking-winners\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[12,1513,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[754],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}