{"id":18945,"date":"2013-09-23T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:31:27","slug":"senate-immigration-bill-to-help-illegals-convicted-of-other-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18945\/senate-immigration-bill-to-help-illegals-convicted-of-other-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Immigration Bill to Help Illegals Convicted of Other Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the immigration reform version of \u201cwe have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to attendees at the Congressional Black Caucus\u2019s annual conference, Esther Olavarria, the White House\u2019s director of immigration reform, highlighted some provisions of the Senate\u2019s bill that she would like the public to ignore.<\/p>\n

Making it easier for illegal immigrants convicted of crimes to stay in the country got special attention.<\/p>\n

In Olavarria\u2019s telling<\/a>, the Senate bill reverses a 1996 law that says any criminal conviction can serve as the basis for deportation. The new language would exempt convictions<\/a> followed by a suspended sentence, meaning that deportation would not be an option if the offender gets probation instead of jail time.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind, the conviction referred to is for a crime separate<\/em> from illegally entering the country.<\/p>\n

Thus, if passed, the Senate bill would not only excuse the foundational illegality of unlawfully entering the country, it would further protect from prosecution those who have been convicted, but not yet served jail time.<\/p>\n

But if you haven\u2019t heard about this controversial change in law, Olavarria explains why.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t played [them] up because we want to be able to maintain them as we go through the legislative process,\u201d she told the conference attendees. \u201cThe bill has a number of other important provisions that have stayed under the radar, and we\u2019d actually like to keep them under the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the White House knows it can\u2019t win an open and honest debate about granting illegal immigrants not one, but (at least) two free passes when it comes to breaking the law.<\/p>\n

This subterfuge is yet another reason to scrap the Senate\u2019s bill and start over.<\/p>\n

H\/T: The Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the immigration reform version of \u201cwe have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.\u201d Speaking to attendees at the Congressional Black Caucus\u2019s annual conference, Esther Olavarria, the White House\u2019s director of immigration reform, highlighted some provisions of the Senate\u2019s bill that she would like the public to ignore. […]<\/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":[84,1657,4278,3949,1553,981,1447,38,44],"class_list":["post-18945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-house","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-reform","tag-senate","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945","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=18945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18955,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions\/18955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}