{"id":16463,"date":"2012-11-12T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16463"},"modified":"2012-11-12T13:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:39:43","slug":"after-immigration-reform-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16463\/after-immigration-reform-then-what\/","title":{"rendered":"After Immigration Reform, Then What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/12\/the-republicans-fallacy-about-latino-voters-and-what-motivates-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Beinart<\/a> says the GOP\u2019s \u201cHispanic problem\u201d is about more than just immigration reform and competing forms of amnesty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hispanics do feel that the economic system is \u201cstacked against them\u201d and they do \u201cwant stuff\u201d like health care, college-tuition assistance, and other government benefits that might help them get ahead. According to\u00a0Pew, while only 41 percent of Americans as a whole say they want a bigger government that provides more services, a whopping 75 percent of Hispanics do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Food for thought for those thinking Marco Rubio\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2012\/11\/10\/rubio-immigration-presidential-run\/1695791\/\" target=\"_blank\">version of the DREAM Act<\/a> or another legal quick fix will suddenly flip Hispanics from Democrats to Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Beinart says the GOP\u2019s \u201cHispanic problem\u201d is about more than just immigration reform and competing forms of amnesty: Hispanics do feel that the economic system is \u201cstacked against them\u201d and they do \u201cwant stuff\u201d like health care, college-tuition assistance, and other government benefits that might help them get ahead. According to\u00a0Pew, while only 41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,1843,95,981,352,1921,1447,1286],"class_list":["post-16463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-dream-act","tag-entitlements","tag-immigration","tag-marco-rubio","tag-peter-beinart","tag-reform","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16468,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions\/16468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}