{"id":2237,"date":"2009-05-06T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2009-05-06T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:53:34","slug":"human-events-illegal-alien-lobby-and-their-false-arguments-great-piece-rep-lamar-smith-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/human-events-illegal-alien-lobby-and-their-false-arguments-great-piece-rep-lamar-smith-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Events: Illegal alien lobby and their false arguments GREAT PIECE! Rep. Lamar Smith and VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amnesty Pushers Concoct Six Straw Men<\/strong><br \/>\nby  Rep. Lamar Smith <\/p>\n<p>05\/06\/2009 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s an old device in politics: Set up a straw man to criticize when you can\u2019t win an argument on your own. Such tactics, unfortunately, are standard fare when it comes to efforts by a handful of special interest groups to bring about amnesty for illegal immigrants. <\/p>\n<p>Organizations such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Migration Policy Institute know that most Americans disagree with their desire for amnesty. Most Americans want to see immigration laws enforced. So these groups create straw men. They use them as diversionary tactics to criticize the way in which immigration laws are enforced without ever admitting to their true amnesty goals. <\/p>\n<p>Who are these Straw Men? Let\u2019s take a look:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> READ IT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=31727\">HERE<\/a> and then see if MALDEF has done exactly what Rep. Smith describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aP4DKIHVsWA\">HERE<\/a> ( 2 minute local TV video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty Pushers Concoct Six Straw Men by Rep. Lamar Smith 05\/06\/2009 It\u2019s an old device in politics: Set up a straw man to criticize when you can\u2019t win an argument on your own. Such tactics, unfortunately, are standard fare when it comes to efforts by a handful of special interest groups to bring about amnesty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}