{"id":1436,"date":"2013-06-14T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:29:23","slug":"why-you-should-be-anti-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Be Anti-Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anti-Amnesty<\/h4>\n<p>Did you know there are <strong>over 4 million people<\/strong> waiting to enter this country<em> legally<\/em>? The Amnesty bills in Congress would reward 11.5 million others to <strong>cut into that line<\/strong>. Simply put, the amnesty bill is unfair, too costly and encourages more illegal behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s a better way<\/strong> to strengthen the immigration system that focuses on the things that are supported by the majority of Americans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix our slow, broken, lawful immigration system through <strong>step-by-step legislation that is simple, clear, and transparent<\/strong>. This creates opportunities for legislative victories that make it hard to hide loopholes or sweetheart deals for special interests.<\/li>\n<li>Congress should <strong>keep the promises they made<\/strong> when they granted amnesty &#8220;for only this one time&#8221; in 1986.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enforce our existing laws<\/strong> by imposing stiff fines on those who hire illegal immigrants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secure our borders<\/strong> &#8211; It is a top priority for Americans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t put up with the costly, bureaucratic, special interest-loving approach to immigration reform. Know <strong>what&#8217;s really going on <\/strong>in Washington and get information on <strong>the better way<\/strong> of fair, firm, and consistent immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Anti_Amnesty \" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/immigration\/unfair\/?src=homepage\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FREE e-newsletter<\/strong><\/a> to stay informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Amnesty Did you know there are over 4 million people waiting to enter this country legally? The Amnesty bills in Congress would reward 11.5 million others to cut into that line. Simply put, the amnesty bill is unfair, too costly and encourages more illegal behavior. There&#8217;s a better way to strengthen the immigration system that &#8230; <a title=\"Why You Should Be Anti-Amnesty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1436\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why You Should Be Anti-Amnesty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[501,502,503],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anti-amnesty","tag-be-anti-amnesty","tag-force-illegals-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}