{"id":293,"date":"2011-09-20T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-09-20T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:08:28","slug":"charts-borderenforcement-spending-and-deportation-levels-continue-to-skyrocket-under-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/charts-borderenforcement-spending-and-deportation-levels-continue-to-skyrocket-under-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Border\/Enforcement Spending and Deportation Levels Continue to Skyrocket Under Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican charges that the Obama administration is giving border security and immigration enforcement short shrift are false.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the fact that border security spending and personnel have also increased in recent years, the deportation numbers show that an aggressive \u201cenforcement-only\u201d immigration policy built during the Bush Administration is still the status quo of the Obama Administration.\u00a0 As a result, partisan charges on border security and demands for even more immigration enforcement as a pretext for passing comprehensive immigration reform do not ring true in light of these numbers and this reality.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/research\/entry\/charts_enforcement_spending_and_deportation_levels_continue_to_skyrock\">CHARTS: Border\/Enforcement Spending and Deportation Levels Continue to Skyrocket Under Obama | Research Library | America&#8217;s Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican charges that the Obama administration is giving border security and immigration enforcement short shrift are false. In conjunction with the fact that border security spending and personnel have also increased in recent years, the deportation numbers show that an aggressive \u201cenforcement-only\u201d immigration policy built during the Bush Administration is still the status quo of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,20],"tags":[177,24,179,178,42,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}