{"id":7346,"date":"2014-07-29T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:49:32","slug":"fair-alert-house-leadership-may-send-flawed-border-bill-to-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/07\/29\/fair-alert-house-leadership-may-send-flawed-border-bill-to-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Alert – House Leadership May Send Flawed Border Bill to Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"
House Leadership to Send Flawed Border Bill to Floor<\/strong> Sources all over Capitol Hill are reporting that House Speaker John Boehner plans to send a flawed border bill to the floor this week. The bill will be a response to President Obama’s request for Congress to provide government agencies an extra $3.7 billion to speed up the processing of and provide care for illegal alien minors flooding the border and resettle them all across the country.<\/p>\n \nCALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW AND URGE THEM TO VOTE NO!<\/strong><\/p>\n To make matters worse, President Obama has circumvented Congress and adopted administrative amnesty programs, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), that shield illegal aliens from deportation. These policies have sent a clear message around the world: if you come, you can stay.<\/li>\n While this is a laudable goal, the Senate has vowed to block any changes to the 2008 Act. And, if policy changes are sent to the Senate, any legislation that returns to the House is likely to contain some sort of amnesty or other bad policy changes. This would set up a dangerous scenario for a conference committee or action in a lame-duck session of Congress.<\/li>\n More importantly,<\/strong> the Obama Administration has vowed that by the end of August, it will unilaterally grant some sort of administrative amnesty to illegal aliens already in the U.S. By some accounts the plan may shield millions of illegal aliens from deportation!<\/strong> (See, e.g.,<\/em> The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, June 30, 2014)<\/li>\n Finally, the House Leadership bill<\/strong> does nothing to address the real cause of the crisis.<\/strong> It does not attempt to stop President Obama’s non-enforcement policies or his administrative amnesty programs. And it does nothing to impede President Obama from fulfilling his promise to grant administrative amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. by the end of this summer!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Act NOW!<\/strong> FAIR is asking all of its members, supporters, and activists to call their Representatives and urge them to vote NO on the House Leadership supplemental spending bill.\u00a0 Tell your Representative:<\/p>\n House leaders plan to vote on their bill THIS WEEK! Call your Representatives NOW! <\/strong>
\nCall Your Representatives NOW and Urge Them to Vote No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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