{"id":33922,"date":"2013-01-31T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33922"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:34:59","slug":"is-there-real-hope-for-immigration-reform-pilar-marrero-jeff-biggers-and-gabriela-garcia-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/01\/31\/is-there-real-hope-for-immigration-reform-pilar-marrero-jeff-biggers-and-gabriela-garcia-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Real Hope for Immigration Reform? Pilar Marrero, Jeff Biggers and Gabriela Garcia Discuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest013113\/2013_01_31_immigration_round_table.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/immigration.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>President Obama laid out his plans for immigration reform on Tuesday to a Las Vegas crowd of supporters. Obama took cues for his proposal from a bipartisan coalition of eight senators saying that \u201cthe differences are dwindling\u201d between the Right and Left on immigration. <\/p>\n<p>Among the so called \u201cGang of Eight\u201d senators who helped set the framework for the proposal were Republicans John McCain and Marco Rubio, as well as Democrat Charles Schumer. The main issues in the proposal were a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants, increased security at borders and workplaces and incentives for white collar foreign immigrants to legally remain in the country.<\/p>\n<p>While many political pundits, including Rush Limbaugh, have called Obama\u2019s reform efforts admirable, those working in the immigrant rights communities remain highly skeptical. In light of the record number of deportations which have taken place since Obama took office, activists are concerned that the proposal might help continue the epidemic levels of deportation. Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said, \u201cUntil deportations stop, President Obama and Congress will be in the impossible position of deporting the very people they are ostensibly trying to bring into citizenship.\u201d The proposal\u2019s path to citizenship would be contingent upon increased border security.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Pilar Marrero author of Killing the American Dream and journalist with La Opinion, Jeff Biggers author of State Out of the Union, Gabriela Garcia senior campaigner with presente.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Jeff Biggers&#8217; article in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2013\/01\/30\" target=\"_blank\"> Common Dreams.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Visit Pilar&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilarmarrero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Gabriela Garcia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/presente.org\/blog\/2012\/nov\/7\/latinos-new-political-era\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post on the presente.org website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama laid out his plans for immigration reform on Tuesday to a Las Vegas crowd of supporters. Obama took cues for his proposal from a bipartisan coalition of eight senators saying that \u201cthe differences are dwindling\u201d between the Right and Left on immigration. Among the so called \u201cGang of Eight\u201d senators who helped set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922","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=33922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}