{"id":973,"date":"2004-06-17T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T16:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/plastic_for_illegal_aliens\/"},"modified":"2004-06-17T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T16:35:36","slug":"plastic_for_illegal_aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/plastic_for_illegal_aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic for Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more evidence of America&#8217;s strong public policy against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/investing\/la-fi-card16jun16,1,3573669.story?coll=la-headlines-business-invest\">illegal immigration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world&#8217;s largest financial services group [Citigroup] said Tuesday that the new program would allow Mexican residents to benefit from credit lines granted to Citigroup&#8217;s U.S. clients and to withdraw cash from American accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All migrant workers need is a photo ID and a permanent U.S. address.  With the account they can more easily send money back to the folks at home.  And send it they do; 1 in 5 Mexicans receive money from someone working in the U.S.<br \/>\nWith accommodations like this being installed, does anyone think we&#8217;re going to take any effective steps in curbing the flow of immigrants across the border?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/plastic_for_illegal_aliens\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Plastic for Illegal Aliens\"><p>Yet more evidence of America&#8217;s strong public policy against illegal immigration: The world&#8217;s largest financial services group [Citigroup] said Tuesday that the new program would allow Mexican residents to benefit from credit lines granted to Citigroup&#8217;s U.S. clients and to withdraw cash from American accounts. All migrant workers need is a photo ID and a [&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-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}