{"id":6336,"date":"2012-04-16T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:15:48","slug":"romney-says-gop-needs-its-own-version-of-the-dream-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/16\/romney-says-gop-needs-its-own-version-of-the-dream-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Says GOP Needs Its Own Version Of The DREAM Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4414\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/23\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-education-and-the-florida-2012-gop-primary\/republican-presidential-hopeful-mitt-rom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4414\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4414\" title=\"Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Rom\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/137599565-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/137599565-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/137599565-220x159.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/137599565.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emmanuel Dunand \/ AFP<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said at a Palm Beach fundraiser Sunday that Republicans need their own version of the DREAM Act &#8212; one piece of a policy set designed to win over Hispanic voters, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304432704577346611860756628.html?mod=WSJ__MIDDLESecondStories\">according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s a good thing that Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/09\/florida-u-s-senator-working-on-new-version-of-the-dream-act\/\">working on that exact idea right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DREAM Act &#8212; according to the version proposed by Democrats that Congress has rejected &#8212; would allow young adult undocumented immigrants a fast track to citizenship by attending college or joining the military. Rubio&#8217;s version would require undocumented immigrants to go to the end of the waiting line, but would allow those immigrants to remain in the U.S. legally while waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe these two have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/about_6603394_florida-important-presidential-elections_.html\">some reason<\/a> to get together and talk the idea over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said at a Palm Beach fundraiser Sunday that Republicans need their own version of the DREAM Act &#8212; one piece of a policy set designed to win over Hispanic voters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Well it&#8217;s a good thing that Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1068,1053,1137,1069],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}