{"id":33,"date":"2009-11-13T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paschal-law.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-05-11T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T09:07:01","slug":"cir-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/cir-back-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CIR back in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, there has been little or no discussion about CIR&#8211;Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Every one was focused on Health Care Debate, which is a very important issue that the Obama administration has decided to tackle. Today, however, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, re-introduced CIR to the American people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/14immig.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">She delivered an important speech on the need for CIR<\/a>; that while her Department continues to do all it can on the enforcement front, their effort needs to be complemented by CIR. Video of the speech is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/events\/2009\/11\/Napolitano.html\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a>. Advocates of immigration reform, i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/American_Immigration_Council_111309.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ncluding the American Immigration Counci<\/a>l, were impressed and felt reassured that the administration still has its sight on the CIR goals. We, at Paschal Nwokocha Law Offices, are elated by the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>It seems quite ironic that this announcement comes just as Lou Dobs, a nativist and immigration demagogue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/events\/2009\/11\/Napolitano.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced his resignation<\/a> from CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Peace to people of good will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, there has been little or no discussion about CIR&#8211;Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Every one was focused on Health Care Debate, which is a very important issue that the Obama administration has decided to tackle. Today, however, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, re-introduced CIR to the American people. She delivered an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paschal-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}