{"id":484,"date":"2006-05-30T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-05-30T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T16:38:37","slug":"senate-immigration-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/05\/30\/senate-immigration-bill-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Immigration Bill Passes"},"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\/2006_05_30_tactaquin.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_05_30_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/afp\/20060526\/capt.sge.alo32.260506061358.photo01.photo.default-512x371.jpg?x=380&#038;y=275&#038;sig=k86hqF68.D08hMbs3TTyMA--\" alt=\"McCain - Kennedy\" \/><em>GUEST: Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Senate version of immigration reform legislation finally passed late last week. According to the New York Times, the bill as passed will give most undocumented immigrants an opportunity to become citizens. Now, SB 2611 has to be reconciled with the draconian House billl, HR 4437,  which was passed last December. The Senate bill, which has come to be known as the McCain-Kennedy bill, after it&#8217;s key authors, was passed with votes from 23 Republicans, one Independent and 38 Democrats. James Sensenbrenner, the archietect of HR 4437, has denounced SB 2611, saying that it offers immigrants amnesty. But the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the leading national immigrants-rights organization, has expressed outrage and disappointment at the Senate bill, saying it will &#8220;foster racial segregation and discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnirr.org\">www.nnirr.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights The Senate version of immigration reform legislation finally passed late last week. According to the New York Times, the bill as passed will give most undocumented immigrants an opportunity to become citizens. Now, SB 2611 has to be reconciled with the [&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-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}