{"id":2899,"date":"2013-04-01T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2015-07-30T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:34:16","slug":"garbage-in-garbage-out-gop-operatives-design-immigration-survey-to-support-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/04\/01\/garbage-in-garbage-out-gop-operatives-design-immigration-survey-to-support-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage In, Garbage Out: GOP Operatives Design Immigration Survey to Support Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgent Republic, a Republican strategy group led by former party chairman Ed Gillespie and pollster Whit Ayres, is urging the GOP to get behind amnesty, a dramatic expansion of legal immigration, and the importation of more foreign workers, regardless of high unemployment. Not surprisingly, Gillespie, Ayres, and others associated with Resurgent Republic have close ties to the business wing of the Republican Party, which has traditionally favored large-scale immigration as a hedge against rising wages for workers.<\/p>\n<p>Read my full op-ed in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/04\/01\/gop-operatives-design-immigration-survey-support-amnesty\/#ixzz2PFO24Htc\" target=\"_blank\">DailyCaller<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgent Republic, a Republican strategy group led by former party chairman Ed Gillespie and pollster Whit Ayres, is urging the GOP to get behind amnesty, a dramatic expansion of legal immigration, and the importation of more foreign workers, regardless of high unemployment. Not surprisingly, Gillespie, Ayres, and others associated with Resurgent Republic have close ties<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/04\/01\/garbage-in-garbage-out-gop-operatives-design-immigration-survey-to-support-amnesty\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[6,4,10,7],"tags":[472,1052],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}