{"id":2727,"date":"2013-03-18T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2015-07-30T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:38:35","slug":"rnc-supports-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/03\/18\/rnc-supports-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Supports Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embracing the false notion perpetuated by the open-borders lobby that the Party will continue to lose elections until it pushes amnesty, the Republican National Committee (RNC) today told its members they must support \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/GOP-Growth-Opportunity-Project2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Growth and Opportunity Project<\/a> at p. 8, Mar. 18, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>The call to support an amnesty agenda appeared in a report released this morning entitled the \u201cGrowth and Opportunity Project\u201d.  Commissioned by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in response to the Party\u2019s failure to win the White House or Senate in 2012, the report\u2019s authors include Henry Barbour, Sally Bradshaw, Ari Fleischer, Zori Fonalledas, and Glenn McCall. (Id. at p. 1)<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans fail to \u201cembrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,\u201d the report warns, \u201cour Party\u2019s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.\u201d However, in making such a sweeping statement, the report\u2019s authors neglect to consider the number of Americans opposed to amnesty who may either leave the Party or simply refuse to vote for Republican candidates as a result of such an about-face by the Party establishment. (Id. at p. 8)<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that granting a reprieve to the nation\u2019s 11-12 million illegal aliens will increase job competition for the 22 million un\/underemployed Americans, as well as the number of individuals who are eligible for public assistance and ObamaCare, the RNC also claims amnesty will help grow the economy.  \u201cWe also believe that comprehensive immigration reform is consistent with Republican economic policies that promote job growth and opportunity for all.\u201d   (Id.)<\/p>\n<p>In issuing the report, the RNC appears to be taking its marching orders on immigration policy from President Obama.  In a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama told them they would benefit more from passing amnesty legislation than the Democrats.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/obama-says-immigration-bill-would-help-house-gop\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Mar. 13, 2013)  Only five days later, the RNC appears to agree, calling on its members to support \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform. <\/p>\n<p>To express your views to the RNC, call 202-863-8500. You can also email them through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">RNC Website<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embracing the false notion perpetuated by the open-borders lobby that the Party will continue to lose elections until it pushes amnesty, the Republican National Committee (RNC) today told its members they must support \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d (See Growth and Opportunity Project at p. 8, Mar. 18, 2013) The call to support an amnesty agenda appeared<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/03\/18\/rnc-supports-amnesty\/\" 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":[5,3,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[965],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727"}],"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=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}