{"id":17839,"date":"2013-05-02T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17839"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:30:03","slug":"new-version-of-secret-immigration-bill-has-999-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17839\/new-version-of-secret-immigration-bill-has-999-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Version of Secret Immigration Bill has 999 Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only does a newly released version of the Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration reform bill expand (from 844 to 867 pages) its previous draft, it also \u201ccontains 999 references to waivers, exemptions and political discretion,\u201d according to an analysis by Neil Munro<\/a> of the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

That means the Gang’s new bill has more exemptions per page than ObamaCare; 1.14 per page to 0.78 by the Daily Caller’s count.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, there are now two secretly negotiated versions of comprehensive immigration reform circulating on Capitol Hill, and neither of them includes one word of input from the public, issue experts, or other Members of Congress.<\/p>\n

If the U.S. Senate under Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) were following a transparent process it would be expected that the introduced version of the Gang\u2019s immigration bill would change and perhaps get bigger after a few weeks kicking around in committee as Senators and their supporters read and tweaked it.<\/p>\n

But the fact that there has been no opportunity for amendments to the Gang\u2019s original bill and barely enough time for opponents to read and understand it \u2013 and consequently, find out what\u2019s wrong with it<\/a> \u2013 the arrival of this secretly amended version means that non-Gang members are back to square one trying to figure out what the bill actually says and what it actually does.<\/p>\n

With 999 exemptions, waivers and grants of discretion to sort through, it would take the better part of a month to diagram how the law will work when implemented, and ferret out all its unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

As it is, the full Senate is expected to start voting on the new version as early as next week when Congress returns from its current recess.<\/p>\n

This is government by ambush, and conservatives need to kill both the bill and the perverted process that makes it possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only does a newly released version of the Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration reform bill expand (from 844 to 867 pages) its previous draft, it also \u201ccontains 999 references to waivers, exemptions and political discretion,\u201d according to an analysis by Neil Munro of the Daily Caller. That means the Gang’s new bill has more exemptions […]<\/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":[84,4100,77,981,2338],"class_list":["post-17839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-harry-reid","tag-immigration","tag-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839","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=17839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17846,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions\/17846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}