{"id":65377,"date":"2017-12-14T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65377"},"modified":"2017-12-09T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:31:29","slug":"7-billion-americans-paperwork-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65377","title":{"rendered":"7 Billion Americans (Paperwork Pending)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RINOs demand amnesty for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/12\/05\/dozens-of-republicans-now-clamoring-for-a-dreamers-fix-by-years-end\/?utm_term=.d02f05bce939\">illegal aliens before year-end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know, they\u2019re claiming it\u2019s only for a few people, and they\u2019re doing it for the children, and I\u2019m a hard-hearted bastard for doubting them.\u00a0 But this is not my first rodeo.\u00a0 I remember 1986.\u00a0 I know a camel\u2019s nose when I see one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are American in every way except their immigration status.\u201d \u00a0That is precisely correct.\u00a0 They are NOT Americans, any more than the other 7 billion people on the planet who also are not Americans. \u00a0We should treat all Not Americans the same.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter whether they snuck across the border on their own, or with a friend, or with a parent, or rode here on top of a train.\u00a0 They had no right to come.\u00a0 Being here doesn\u2019t give them a right to stay, to bring in their extended families, to work at jobs Americans could have had, to collect welfare benefits Americans pay to help our fellow citizens of America.<\/p>\n<p>No deal.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem\u00a0<em>too\u00a0<\/em>much to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: RINOs demand amnesty for illegal aliens before year-end. Yes, I know, they\u2019re claiming it\u2019s only for a few people, and they\u2019re doing it for the children, and I\u2019m a hard-hearted bastard for doubting them.\u00a0 But this is not my first rodeo.\u00a0 I remember 1986.\u00a0 I know a camel\u2019s nose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377","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=65377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377\/revisions\/65384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}