{"id":1103,"date":"2007-01-10T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2007-01-10T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T17:21:53","slug":"immigration-reform-and-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/01\/10\/immigration-reform-and-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Reform and the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_10_lee.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_10_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.fairimmigration.org\/images\/global\/logo_firm.gif\" alt=\"FIRM\" \/><em>GUEST: Eunsook Lee, Executive Director of the National Korean American Service &#038; Education Consortium <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of the new Democratic-controlled Congress have predicted that reform of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immigration policy is likely to happen this session. Immigration reform is a part of the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one-hundred hours agenda. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said that President Bush expected an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153easier time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dealing with Democrats in a meeting last week with congressional leaders. House Republicans had blocked President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immigration proposals last year and instead passed legislation authorizing the construction of a 700 mile border fence along the U.S. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mexico border. Sensing a shift in the political climate, leaders of grassroots immigration rights coalitions have outlined their principles and strategies to achieve real immigration reform in the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 110th Congress. In a telephone press conference yesterday, members of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement demanded that any changes to immigration law must contain eleven elements including a non-tiered path to legalization, the passage of the DREAM Act, and halting the militarization of the border. The coalition&#8217;s proposal is signed on to by nearly 300 organizations in 35 states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Eunsook Lee, Executive Director of the National Korean American Service &#038; Education Consortium Members of the new Democratic-controlled Congress have predicted that reform of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immigration policy is likely to happen this session. Immigration reform is a part of the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one-hundred hours agenda. House of Representatives Democratic Leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}