{"id":1800,"date":"2010-01-01T05:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2010-01-01T05:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T09:07:50","slug":"immigrants-are-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/immigrants-are-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants are Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/01\/01\/ED5U1BBGJI.DTL\">a recent letter to the <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i><\/a>, someone named David Ferris wrote <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Unfortunately, during the 2000-05 recovery, immigrants &#8211; both legal and illegal &#8211; got the jobs that should have gone to the youngest and poorest Americans. If we don&#8217;t make every effort to ensure that any jobs created go to our own people, we&#8217;ll be looking at another &#8220;jobless recovery.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Hate to break the news to you, Mr. Ferris, but legal immigrants <i>are<\/i> Americans. I am the son of immigrants, and they are both full US citizens who work, vote, pay taxes, and donate to charities. I guess Mr. Ferris imagines he himself is not a descendant of immigrants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, someone named David Ferris wrote Unfortunately, during the 2000-05 recovery, immigrants &#8211; both legal and illegal &#8211; got the jobs that should have gone to the youngest and poorest Americans. If we don&#8217;t make every effort to ensure that any jobs created go to our own&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/immigrants-are-americans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immigrants are Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[690,688,689,917,687],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-class-gender-sexuality","tag-chauvinism","tag-immigration","tag-nationalism","tag-racism","tag-xenophobia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}