{"id":61214,"date":"2016-12-07T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61214"},"modified":"2016-12-03T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T13:56:07","slug":"61214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61214","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Being a sanctuary city is all the rage. It means local officials won\u2019t enforce federal immigration laws.\u00a0 Mayor Coleman claims it\u2019s a states-rights issue: the feds can\u2019t force local officials to do their jobs. Glad to see he\u2019s come around on that point, it\u2019s progress when a Democrat argues our for our side.\u00a0 But why such a limited scope?\u00a0 Why not become a true sanctuary?\u00a0 Illegal aliens bring labor, but they also consume services. \u00a0Why not shelter counterfeiters?\u00a0 Think how the local economy could boom.\u00a0 Drug smugglers could employ lots of people if they no longer feared being arrested on federal narcotics charges.\u00a0 Hell, let\u2019s go all the way and let people sell high flow shower heads and toilets!\u00a0 Think of the revenue for the water department!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sort of like an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Irish_in_Saint_Paul#Politics\">O&#8217;Connor System<\/a>, but more down-market and less asking criminals to behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Being a sanctuary city is all the rage. It means local officials won\u2019t enforce federal immigration laws.\u00a0 Mayor Coleman claims it\u2019s a states-rights issue: the feds can\u2019t force local officials to do their jobs. Glad to see he\u2019s come around on that point, it\u2019s progress when a Democrat argues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61229,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions\/61229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}