{"id":172,"date":"2003-11-17T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/checking_illegals\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T17:45:01","slug":"checking_illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/checking_illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the heading &#8220;<a title=\"HobbsOnline A.M.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsonline.blogspot.com\/2003_11_01_hobbsonline_archive.html#106899492310922030\">It Looked Like a Wal-Mart Job Fair<\/a>,&#8221; Bill Hobbs links to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/tennessean.com\/local\/archives\/03\/11\/42571212.shtml?Element_ID=42571212\">Mexican nationals applying for ID cards in Nashville<\/a> and asks why the INS wasn&#8217;t there to round them up.<br \/>\nWhy not?  Precisely because it looked like a Wal-Mart job fair.  Or that of a thousand other businesses.  That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s no political will to change things.  Business owners, who grease the political system with money, don&#8217;t want this cheap supply of labor to dry up.  And when you boil away the rhetoric, it&#8217;s apparent that majority of politicans don&#8217;t either.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s probably impossible to put a complete halt on illegal immigration.  But the government could make a dramatic reduction in the flow if it merely went in earnest after employers hiring illegals, removing work opportunities for them.  Until that happens, though, the policy and rhetoric against illegal aliens remains a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/checking_illegals\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Checking Illegals\"><p>Under the heading &#8220;It Looked Like a Wal-Mart Job Fair,&#8221; Bill Hobbs links to a story on Mexican nationals applying for ID cards in Nashville and asks why the INS wasn&#8217;t there to round them up. Why not? Precisely because it looked like a Wal-Mart job fair. Or that of a thousand other businesses. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}