{"id":316,"date":"2006-10-08T22:09:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T02:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-10-08T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T02:09:03","slug":"escondido-california-far-ahead-of-all-georgia-cities-and-counties-in-trying-to-stop-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/08\/escondido-california-far-ahead-of-all-georgia-cities-and-counties-in-trying-to-stop-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA far ahead of all Georgia cities and counties in trying to stop illegal immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vote to bar illegal immigrant rentals draws hundreds <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Escondido council OKs immigration ordinance<br \/>\nBy J. Harry Jones<br \/>\nSan Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n<p>10:49 p.m. October 4, 2006<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ESCONDIDO \u2013 The national immigration debate rocked Escondido on Wednesday night when the City Council passed a highly divisive ordinance that would prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants.<br \/>\nEvery chair in the 350-seat council chambers was filled and the meeting was broadcast live at a park next door where hundreds more watched the council debate the measure.<\/p>\n<p>It was approved by a 3-2 vote and will be the first of its kind in the state. It will not become law until a second reading in two weeks, followed by a 30-day waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker after speaker decried the law as racist and inhumane, only to be followed by speakers praising the council for standing up for Escondido and America.<\/p>\n<p>Police lined the walls of the meeting room, and everyone who entered had to pass through metal detectors. Outside, officers formed a line to keep the two sides separated. City officials had about 200 officers from several jurisdictions in the county on hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Escondido vote comes at a time when illegal immigration is one of the polarizing topics locally and nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20061004-2249-1n5immig1.html\">The rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote to bar illegal immigrant rentals draws hundreds Escondido council OKs immigration ordinance By J. Harry Jones San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 10:49 p.m. October 4, 2006 ESCONDIDO \u2013 The national immigration debate rocked Escondido on Wednesday night when the City Council passed a highly divisive ordinance that would prohibit landlords from renting to illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}