{"id":727,"date":"2007-05-21T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2007-05-21T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:44:32","slug":"prominent-republicans-repudiate-kennedy-bush-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/prominent-republicans-repudiate-kennedy-bush-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"PROMINENT REPUBLICANS  REPUDIATE KENNEDY-BUSH AMNESTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PROMINENT REPUBLICANS  REPUDIATE KENNEDY-BUSH AMNESTY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MITT ROMNEY<\/strong>\u2022\t&#8220;I strongly oppose today&#8217;s bill going through the Senate. It is the wrong approach. Any legislation that allows illegal immigrants to stay in the country indefinitely, as the new &#8216;Z-Visa&#8217; does, is a form of amnesty. That is unfair to the millions of people who have applied to legally immigrate to the U.S.\u201d &#8212; Press Release, 5\/17\/07 <\/p>\n<p><strong>NEWT GINGRICH<\/strong>\u2022\t&#8220;[A] sellout of every conservative principle.&#8221; \u2013 The Spectator, 5\/18\/07<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRED THOMPSON<\/strong>\u2022\t\u201cWe should scrap this \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration bill and the whole debate until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders \u2014 or at least made great headway.  That would give proponents of the bill a chance to explain why putting illegals in a more favorable position than those who play by the rules is not really amnesty.\u201d  &#8212;   National Review Online, 5\/18\/07<br \/>\nFrom the Office of Congressman Lamar Smith <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROMINENT REPUBLICANS REPUDIATE KENNEDY-BUSH AMNESTY MITT ROMNEY\u2022 &#8220;I strongly oppose today&#8217;s bill going through the Senate. It is the wrong approach. Any legislation that allows illegal immigrants to stay in the country indefinitely, as the new &#8216;Z-Visa&#8217; does, is a form of amnesty. That is unfair to the millions of people who have applied to [&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\/727"}],"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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}