{"id":75,"date":"2006-03-03T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T04:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-03-03T00:55:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T04:55:51","slug":"the-border-is-an-impediment-to-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/the-border-is-an-impediment-to-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"The border is an impediment to trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/thousand_words\/pics_on_the_border.html\">Arizona border several times <\/a>and seen the result of the federal government&#8217;s refusal to secure that border, I know people who are forced to deal with the consequences every day.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/americas\/03\/01\/mexico.gangs.reut\/\">CNN:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. agents: Mexican gangs terrorize border<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Border Patrol has intercepted more than 400,000 illegal immigrants trying to cross the border in the first two months of this year, compared with around 100,000 a month &#8212; 1.2 million &#8212; last year. About 10 percent of those caught had criminal records.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Dever, sheriff of Arizona&#8217;s Cochise County, said Mexican smugglers now came armed with high capacity assault weapons and orders to protect their cargoes at all costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/13163\/\">allowing illegal immigration into Georgia <\/a>will never have the same consequences here.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been to the Arizona border several times and seen the result of the federal government&#8217;s refusal to secure that border, I know people who are forced to deal with the consequences every day. This from CNN: U.S. agents: Mexican gangs terrorize border The Border Patrol has intercepted more than 400,000 illegal immigrants trying to [&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\/75"}],"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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}