{"id":2308,"date":"2009-06-26T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:23:44","slug":"obama-wants-amnesty-for-illegals-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/obama-wants-amnesty-for-illegals-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants amnesty for illegals (again) this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Roll Call <\/em>&#8212; Washington      <\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama Wants Immigration Reform Done This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPresident Barack Obama on Thursday made his biggest push yet to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year. &#8212; During a bipartisan, bicameral meeting at the White House with nearly three dozen lawmakers, Obama told immigration stakeholders that he wants to wrap up the issue&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats said Obama\u2019s message that comprehensive immigration reform should happen sooner than later was loud and clear. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPushing this off until next year makes it more difficult\u201d politically, due to mid-term elections in November, said Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), who attended the meeting. \u201cThe president would like to see it done before the end of the year. \u2026 He is pretty cognizant in terms of next year and the issues before us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to get this done this year or it\u2019s not going to happen in the president\u2019s first term,\u201d said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who was also at the meeting. \u201cWe\u2019ve all banged the table enough. We\u2019ve all shouted at each other on television enough. Now it\u2019s time to get down to work. I think the time politically is ripe.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/36306-1.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll Call &#8212; Washington Obama Wants Immigration Reform Done This Year President Barack Obama on Thursday made his biggest push yet to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year. &#8212; During a bipartisan, bicameral meeting at the White House with nearly three dozen lawmakers, Obama told immigration stakeholders that he wants to wrap up the [&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\/2308"}],"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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}