{"id":363,"date":"2006-10-29T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2006-10-29T22:55:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:55:46","slug":"us-promotes-food-stamps-for-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/us-promotes-food-stamps-for-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Promotes Food Stamps For Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Promotes Food Stamps For Illegals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The United States Department of Agriculture is spending taxpayer money to run Spanish-language television ads encouraging illegal immigrants to apply for government-financed food stamps. <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The federal agency, which claims to provide leadership on food, agriculture and natural resources based on sound public policy, is working to promote its food stamp program in the Latino communities with a costly series of ads on the nation\u2019s largest Spanish-language network, Los Angeles-based Univision. <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago the Department of Agriculture\u2019s Division of Food and Nutrition Service made a deal with the Mexican Embassy to jointly distribute informative brochures and create public service announcement informing Mexican migrants of the free food program for the poor. <\/p>\n<p>Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro even starred in some of the U.S. Government-financed television commercials, which explain the program and provide a phone number to apply. In the widely viewed commercial, Ortiz Haro assures that receiving food stamps \u201cwon\u2019t affect your immigration status.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear readers &#8211; this is not me saying this. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/about.shtml\">Judicial Watch<\/a>, a non-partisan educational foundation  which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. <\/p>\n<p>They have some wild idea that &#8220;no one is above the law&#8221;. <em>Even illegal aliens and elected officials. <\/em>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corruptionchronicles.com\/2006\/10\/us_promotes_food_stamps_for_il.html\">read the rest here<\/a>. Then, call your Congressman&#8230;he is up for that pesky re-election you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Promotes Food Stamps For Illegals The United States Department of Agriculture is spending taxpayer money to run Spanish-language television ads encouraging illegal immigrants to apply for government-financed food stamps. The federal agency, which claims to provide leadership on food, agriculture and natural resources based on sound public policy, is working to promote its food [&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\/363"}],"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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}