{"id":5324,"date":"2013-12-05T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:23:52","slug":"throwback-thursday-doesnt-this-sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/05\/throwback-thursday-doesnt-this-sound-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"#ThrowbackThursday: Doesn&#8217;t This Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5325\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"FAIR Throwback Thursday\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday-100x53.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Throwback_Thursday-351x185.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Ever feel like you\u2019re having deja vu? That\u2019s a regular occurrence if you follow the immigration debate. You\u2019ve heard the same tired arguments amnesty proponents are using today many times before.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s a \u201cThrowback Thursday\u201d (#tbt) treat \u2013 Ira Mehlman, FAIR\u2019s media director, appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x7iV3IExT28\">Tucker Carlson\u2019s MSNBC show<\/a> in January 2007 to discuss President George W. Bush\u2019s State of the Union speech. At the time, President Bush was pushing for amnesty and a massive guestworker program very similar to the Senate and House bills President Obama, big business, and illegal alien lobbyists are promoting today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x7iV3IExT28\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now we have a different president, a shift in control of Congress, higher unemployment, and many Americans struggling to make ends meet. 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That\u2019s a regular occurrence if you follow the immigration debate. You\u2019ve heard the same tired arguments amnesty proponents are using today many times before. So here\u2019s a \u201cThrowback Thursday\u201d (#tbt) treat \u2013 Ira Mehlman, FAIR\u2019s media director, appeared on Tucker Carlson\u2019s MSNBC show in January 2007 to discuss<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/05\/throwback-thursday-doesnt-this-sound-familiar\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5325,"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],"tags":[409,1497,410,408,407],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324"}],"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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20086,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/20086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}