{"id":10816,"date":"2018-01-08T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:26:03","slug":"immigration-quoteunless-there-is-a-compelling-national-interest-to-do-otherwise-immigrants-should-be-chosen-on-the-basis-of-the-skills-they-contribute-to-the-u-s-economy-barbara-jord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/immigration-quoteunless-there-is-a-compelling-national-interest-to-do-otherwise-immigrants-should-be-chosen-on-the-basis-of-the-skills-they-contribute-to-the-u-s-economy-barbara-jord\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending chain immigration quote:&#8221;Unless there is a compelling national interest to do otherwise, immigrants should be chosen on the basis of the skills they contribute to the U.S. economy.&#8221; \u2013 Barbara Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10821\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AP_7407250252-592x395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AP_7407250252-592x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AP_7407250252-592x395.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AP_7407250252-592x395-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Tex., offers her view on impeachment of President Richard Nixon during a night session of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington Thursday, July 25, 1974. Rep. Jordan is one of five Democratic first-termers on the panel. (AP Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Unless there is a compelling national interest to do otherwise, immigrants should be chosen on the basis of the skills they contribute to the U.S. economy.&#8221;<\/strong> \u2013 Barbara Jordan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numbersusa.com\/sites\/default\/files\/public\/from_drupal5\/JordanCommissionlegal-summary.pdf\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Unless there is a compelling national interest to do otherwise, immigrants should be chosen on the basis of the skills they contribute to the U.S. economy.&#8221; \u2013 Barbara Jordan Here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}