Immigration Focus of Live Capitol Hill Broadcast Marathon April 9-10

Immigration Focus of Live Capitol Hill Broadcast Marathon April 9-10

50 Radio Hosts Have Message for Boehner; Scrap Amnesty and Compel Obama to Enforce Existing Laws

(Washington, D.C.) Hold Their Feet to the Fire 2014, an annual radio row event organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) will be one of this year's defining moments for the national debate about immigration. On April 9 and 10 at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill, 50 talk radio hosts from across the country will spend two days discussing immigration policy with listeners, lawmakers, law enforcement, immigration experts and activists live from radio row while broadcasting their shows live back to their home markets.

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The event is not open to the general public. However, credentialed members of the press are welcome. In particular, reporters covering the national immigration debate will have access to a wide variety of personalities and perspectives all in one location.

Hold Their Feet to the Fire 2014 will occur while the Department of Homeland Security is reviewing their deportation practices with a goal of expanding the categories of illegal aliens who will be exempted from removal. The national radio row will also coincide with - and attempt to blunt - a massive lobbying effort by special interests to resurrect the Senate amnesty bill and an even more aggressive push by corporate interests to convince House Speaker John Boehner to enact legislation that grants them greater access to low-wage foreign labor, even as some 20 million of Americans are unemployed.

The appearance of so many talk hosts coming to Washington punctuates the increasing GOP divide over the immigration issue. When Speaker John Boehner, responding to public disapproval, announced recently that immigration legislation is unlikely in 2014, the Wall Street Journal directly credited talk radio for that decision. 'So great is the House GOP's fear of a talk-radio backlash' that the leadership reversed course on a set of principles they had unveiled only one week earlier.

"But the moment the pressure is off, Boehner may proceed," said Dan Stein, President of FAIR. "Thus, our goal, and the goal of the hosts participating in Hold Their Feet to the Fire 2014, is to make sure that the House leadership continues to hear the voices of the American people and is reminded that it is their interests that our immigration laws are supposed to serve."

WHAT: Hold Their Feet to the Fire 2014 Radio Row

WHEN: April 9 and 10 from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm

WHERE: The Phoenix Park Hotel 520 North Capitol St. (corner of Massachusetts Ave.)

WHO: 50 talk radio hosts, dozens of members of Congress, law enforcement and other policy experts.

HOW: Credentialed media should check in at the Registration Desk, second floor of the hotel for a press pass on the day of the event.

CONTACT: Kristen Williamson, Press Secretary: Office 202-328-7004/Cell 847-651-8611

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