{"id":1751,"date":"2014-11-21T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T05:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T05:43:34","slug":"sen-toomeys-statement-on-presidents-action-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Toomey\u2019s Statement on President\u2019s Action on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2013 U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) released the follow statement about President Obama\u2019s executive action on immigration:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly oppose the President\u2019s latest overreach of his legal authority and his decision to dictate sweeping immigration policy changes without legislation.\u00a0 America\u2019s immigration system is badly broken and cries out for reform, including stronger border security and adequate opportunities for legal immigration.\u00a0 Regrettably, President Obama\u2019s unilateral and legally unauthorized actions will do nothing to fix our broken system, and could encourage even more illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SenToomey\"><em>www.twitter.com\/SenToomey<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorToomey\"><em>www.facebook.com\/SenatorToomey<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 20, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact E.R. Anderson <a href=\"tel:%28202%29%20224-8609\">(202) 224-8609<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) released the follow statement about President Obama\u2019s executive action on immigration: \u201cI strongly oppose the President\u2019s latest overreach of his legal authority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Toomey\u2019s Statement on President\u2019s Action on Immigration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,523,482],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political","category-press-release-2","tag-u-s-senator-pat-toomey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Toomy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}