{"id":2588,"date":"2007-06-30T21:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T03:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2007-06-30T21:32:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T03:32:15","slug":"huckabee-on-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-on-immigration-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee on immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong> had this to say about the recent immigration bill that Congress failed to pass this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was pleased to see Congress recognize the will of the American people against this amnesty bill. Illegal immigration is a serious problem. Unfortunately, now we&#8217;re hearing the excuse that politics will make immigration a dead issue until after the &#8217;08 election. Instead of shirking their responsibility, I urge the Administration and Congress to roll up their sleeves and spend the next year-and-a-half productively doing what the American people expect them to do \u00e2\u20ac\u201c seal the border. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a political issue \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it&#8217;s a national security issue. If our government could just show competence on this threshold issue, the American people would feel more confident about moving forward on a national immigration policy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had this to say about the recent immigration bill that Congress failed to pass this week: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was pleased to see Congress recognize the will of the American people against this amnesty bill. Illegal immigration is a serious problem. Unfortunately, now we&#8217;re hearing the excuse that politics will make immigration a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-on-immigration-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huckabee on immigration bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsandpop","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}