{"id":444,"date":"2006-12-16T00:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2006-12-17T01:06:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T05:06:22","slug":"billy-inman-letter-to-editor-in-the-cherokee-tribune-december-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/16\/billy-inman-letter-to-editor-in-the-cherokee-tribune-december-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Inman letter to editor in the Cherokee Tribune &#8230;consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin&#8217;s Dad, Billy Inman in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeetribune.com\/articles\/2006\/12\/01\/309\/10239374.prt\"> Cherokee Tribune:<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Thanks to commissioners for stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEAR EDITOR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to say a little bit about illegal immigration and thank the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners and others across the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeega.com\/read_mynews.cfm?mid=202\">who are taking a stand on this problem <\/a>to discourage illegal immigration, not just here, but all across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>No one is exempt from illegal immigration. It seems to be getting worse daily, just look around. Anything done or trying to be done on this problem is a plus, but more has got to be done.<\/p>\n<p>I am very concerned with illegal immigration. It changed my life as I knew it Father&#8217;s Day weekend of 2000 when an illegal immigrant driving negligently ran into my family&#8217;s car at estimated 62 mph while we were stopped at a red light. It took my son&#8217;s life at the scene and nearly took my and my wife&#8217;s lives, too. My wife is still in a wheelchair and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessnorthga.com\/news\/hall\/newfullstory.asp?ID=106932\">the man that caused this can&#8217;t be found.<\/a><br \/>\nDeath like this isn&#8217;t right and isn&#8217;t acceptable and I feel it&#8217;s preventable if our federal and all of our governments would enforce our laws and secure our boarders.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s illegal aliens&#8217; decision to come illegally (they know the consequences when they come) and I feel they need to take the consequences that come with their actions &#8211; not us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Billy Inman<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Cherokee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin&#8217;s Dad, Billy Inman in the Cherokee Tribune: Thanks to commissioners for stand DEAR EDITOR: I want to say a little bit about illegal immigration and thank the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners and others across the United States who are taking a stand on this problem to discourage illegal immigration, not just here, but [&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\/444"}],"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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}