{"id":19347,"date":"2013-01-31T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19347"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:07:11","slug":"senators-reach-agreement-on-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19347","title":{"rendered":"Senators Reach Agreement On Immigration\u00a0Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation\u2019s immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11-million illegal immigrants already in this country.<\/p>\n<p>The deal also covers border security, non-citizen or \u201cguest\u201d workers, and employer verification of immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>Although thorny details remain to be negotiated and success is far from certain, the development heralds the start of what could be the most significant effort in years toward overhauling the nation\u2019s inefficient patchwork of immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong> <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> also is committed to enacting comprehensive immigration legislation and will traveled to Nevada on Tuesday to lay out his vision, which is expected to overlap in important ways with the Senate effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation\u2019s immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11-million illegal immigrants already in this country. The deal also covers border security, non-citizen or \u201cguest\u201d workers, and employer verification of immigration status. Although thorny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}