{"id":701,"date":"2007-05-11T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2007-05-13T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T15:52:59","slug":"enforcement-works-jerry-gonzalez-of-galeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/enforcement-works-jerry-gonzalez-of-galeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcement works: Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO in Creative Loafing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Enforcement, even the promise of enforcement WORKS. Just ask the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/friends.php\">far left illegal alien\/open borders lobby<\/a> and the illegals themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below a short excerpt from that (not) far-right <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.creativeloafing.com\/gyrobase\/Content?oid=oid%3A241607\">Creative Loafing <\/a>paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As July 1 approaches, many immigrants &#8211; both illegal and legal &#8211; are<br \/>\nscrambling to decide what to do. Some individuals have obtained black-market<br \/>\ndocuments, while others have packed up, ready to move to a different state.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a substantial change from the vocal, historical immigration protests<br \/>\nand boycotts that made national headlines last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The immigrant community is very fearful and anxious,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/executive_director.php\">Jerry Gonzalez, <\/a>executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.<br \/>\n&#8220;People are selling their homes, liquidating their assets and emptying their<br \/>\nbank accounts to ensure that they will be able to move on a moment&#8217;s<br \/>\nnotice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While immigrants such as Sanchez weigh their options, metro Atlanta<br \/>\nbusinesses may also have to scramble to deal with some unexpected<br \/>\nconsequences of the law. Gonzalez says the Home Builders Association of<br \/>\nGeorgia expects the time for homes to be built to double and the costs of<br \/>\nnew homes to increase by 10 to 30 percent, because American workers will<br \/>\ndemand higher pay and only work 40-hour weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enforcement, even the promise of enforcement WORKS. Just ask the far left illegal alien\/open borders lobby and the illegals themselves. Below a short excerpt from that (not) far-right Creative Loafing paper. As July 1 approaches, many immigrants &#8211; both illegal and legal &#8211; are scrambling to decide what to do. Some individuals have obtained black-market [&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\/701"}],"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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}