{"id":1918,"date":"2010-05-28T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2010-05-28T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:34:59","slug":"massachusetts_takes_a_stand_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Takes A Stand Against Illegal Immigrants????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read the headline right.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a total stand, but it&#8217;s a beginning.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/27\/racists-illegal-immigration-crackdown-passed-by-massachusetts-senate\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, the Massachusetts Senate passed a measure (28-10) barring the state from doing business with any company that is not in complaince with federal laws regarding the hiring of illegal immigrants.&nbsp; The bill also denies in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants.&nbsp; The bill also provides for tougher penalties for creating or using fake identification documents.&nbsp; The Republicans only hold five seats in the Massachusetts state Senate.&nbsp; The bill was passed after polling indicated that 84 percent of Massachusetts voters supported tough immigration laws.&nbsp; The House of Representatives in Massachusetts voted down a measure in late April that would have denied welfare payments to illegal aliens.&nbsp; I suspect this vote in the Senate is an attempt to placate voters after recent Republican victories in the state.<\/p>\n<p>This measure still has to pass the Massachusetts House and be signed by Deval Patrick.&nbsp; It should be very interesting to see what happens next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read the headline right.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a total stand, but it&#8217;s a beginning.&nbsp; According to Hot Air, the Massachusetts Senate passed a measure (28-10) barring the state from doing business with any company that is not in complaince &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}