{"id":7066,"date":"2010-09-14T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:19:46","slug":"liberals-larding-up-defense-bill-with-illegal-immigrant-giveaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7066\/liberals-larding-up-defense-bill-with-illegal-immigrant-giveaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Larding Up Defense Bill with Illegal Immigrant Giveaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving, even in the midst of election season, that there&#8217;s no depths to which Harry Reid won&#8217;t sink, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/14\/reid-adds-controversial-immigration-measure-to-defense-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he will add the DREAM Act, a controversial immigration measure, to a defense policy bill the Senate will take up next week.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means the defense bill, which often passes with bipartisan support, will be home to two major, thorny political issues \u2013 the other being the repeal of the military&#8217;s &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy.<\/p>\n<p>Reid called the DREAM Act &#8220;really important&#8221; and said it should be passed because it provides a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military. DREAM is an acronym for Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s get this straight: at a time when illegal immigration has become such an epidemic that portions of Arizona <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/31\/signs-in-arizona-warn-of-smuggler-dangers\/\" target=\"_blank\">have basically ceded their sovereignty<\/a> &#8212; and at a time when federal entitlements are hemorrhaging out of control &#8212; the Senate Majority Leader wants to prioritize honor roll amnesty and a new entitlement for those who are here illegally (the DREAM Act allows illegal immigrants in American colleges to receive student loans and work study money)? And he&#8217;s willing to hold funding the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan hostage to it? The DREAM Act may be &#8220;really important&#8221; to Reid. To the rest of us, it looks &#8220;really irrelevant&#8221; and &#8220;really destructive&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving, even in the midst of election season, that there&#8217;s no depths to which Harry Reid won&#8217;t sink, CNN reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he will add the DREAM Act, a controversial immigration measure, to a defense policy bill the Senate will take up next week. The decision means the defense bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,846,1843,77,514,1842],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-arizona","tag-dream-act","tag-harry-reid","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-mexican-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}