{"id":388,"date":"2006-11-18T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T03:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2006-11-19T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T15:14:14","slug":"illegal-alienopen-borders-lobby-prepare-big-push-for-reform-are-hopeful-over-the-democrats%e2%80%99-ascendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/18\/illegal-alienopen-borders-lobby-prepare-big-push-for-reform-are-hopeful-over-the-democrats%e2%80%99-ascendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal alien\/open borders lobby prepare big push for reform, are hopeful over the Democrats\u2019 ascendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=167632\">Boston Herald:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigrant groups prepare big push for reform, are hopeful over the Democrats\u2019 ascendance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Associated Press<br \/>\nThursday, November 16, 2006 &#8211; Updated: 02:53 PM EST<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RIVERSIDE, Calif. &#8211; At a recent strategy session, Hispanic political activists debated ways to characterize the 700-mile fence along the Mexican border approved last month by Congress. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cBerlin Wall\u201d was the language used in the meeting agenda. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cBetter to call it the \u2018Apartheid Wall\u2019 because of the racial implications,\u201d one man said. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cWe should call it what it is &#8211; an extension of the \u2018Tortilla Wall,\u201d\u2019 another activist suggested, referring to the derogatory name Mexican immigrants gave fences built around Tijuana in the 1970s. <\/p>\n<p>With the Democrats set to take control of Congress next year, pro-immigrant groups are meeting around the nation to devise a new strategy to win amnesty for illegal immigrants, repeal of the Secure Fence Act and more visas for foreigners. <\/p>\n<p>Activists say they have a better chance of gaining reforms under the Democrats than under the Republicans, but believe it will still require intense political pressure and efforts to mold public opinion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IF you are not already signed up to take advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numbersusa.com\/index\">FREE fax Congress service at NUMBERSUSA<\/a>&#8230;please do it now, the illegal alien\/open borders lobby has a similar service and will be doing all it can to convince Congress that &#8220;a path to citizenship&#8221; [ amnesty-again] is what should be done to stop illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need a fax machine, only the computer you already have. It is easy and painless&#8230;.and it works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Boston Herald: Immigrant groups prepare big push for reform, are hopeful over the Democrats\u2019 ascendance By Associated Press Thursday, November 16, 2006 &#8211; Updated: 02:53 PM EST RIVERSIDE, Calif. &#8211; At a recent strategy session, Hispanic political activists debated ways to characterize the 700-mile fence along the Mexican border approved last month by [&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\/388"}],"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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}