{"id":564,"date":"2011-10-05T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:17:42","slug":"sen-rand-paul-blocks-36-million-for-disabled-and-elderly-refugees-including-those-who-aided-american-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/sen-rand-paul-blocks-36-million-for-disabled-and-elderly-refugees-including-those-who-aided-american-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul Blocks $36 Million For Disabled And Elderly Refugees, Including Those Who Aided American Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/10\/04\/335956\/sen-rand-paul-blocks-36-million-for-disabled-and-elderly-refugees-including-those-who-aided-american-troops\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/randpaul1.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the bill\u2019s sponsor, pointed out the life-threatening consequences of Paul\u2019s actions. \u201cThe bill ensures that refugees will not lose critical life-sustaining benefits that are their only safety net protecting them from homelessness, illness and other effects of extreme poverty,\u201d he said, noting that \u201csome of the disabled refugees this bill helps are people who have aided American troops overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan \u2014 and risked their lives for America\u2019s cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the refugee program is being used to usher terrorists into the U.S. has been thoroughly debunked by international organizations. As the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights has noted, asylum seekers are the victims of terrorism, not its perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/10\/04\/335956\/sen-rand-paul-blocks-36-million-for-disabled-and-elderly-refugees-including-those-who-aided-american-troops\/\">Sen. Rand Paul Blocks $36 Million For Disabled And Elderly Refugees, Including Those Who Aided American Troops | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the bill\u2019s sponsor, pointed out the life-threatening consequences of Paul\u2019s actions. \u201cThe bill ensures that refugees will not lose critical life-sustaining benefits that are their only safety net protecting them from homelessness, illness and other effects of extreme poverty,\u201d he said, noting that \u201csome of the disabled refugees this bill helps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[24,55,26,336,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}