{"id":757,"date":"2007-12-11T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=192"},"modified":"2007-12-11T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T15:50:18","slug":"121101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"12\/11\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a blog talk radio show this week. \u00a0 I was asked about illegal immigration. \u00a0 I said during a &#8220;Border Tour&#8221; we went to Juarez, Mexico, where some 200,000 people live in total abject poverty. \u00a0 The streets were dusty, the homes were cobbled together shacks and the children were hungry, some dying. \u00a0 &#8220;A New York <em>Catholic Worker<\/em> newspaper this month carried an article on immigration. \u00a0 It started: \u00a0 &#8220;As politicians and mainstream media rally around the birth of border walls, violent raids and anti-immigration ordinances, Christians kneel around a little refugee baby who was born unwelcomed and on-the-run&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0 Just one of many <em>Bible<\/em> stories that would fly in the face of obsessive &#8216;American protectionism.&#8217; \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During the Border Tour, I told the <em>Hobbs (NM) Sun<\/em> newspaper that we should look at both legal and illegal immigrants as a tremendous spiritual opportunity to help&#8230; For our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_immig.html\">position paper on immigration<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a blog talk radio show this week. \u00a0 I was asked about illegal immigration. \u00a0 I said during a &#8220;Border Tour&#8221; we went to Juarez, Mexico, where some 200,000 people live in total abject poverty. \u00a0 The streets <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=757\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}