{"id":6663,"date":"2023-11-10T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/republican-lawmakers-say-the-border-is-dangerous-fbi-stats-show-thats-bullshit\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:09:13","slug":"republican-lawmakers-say-the-border-is-dangerous-fbi-stats-show-thats-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/republican-lawmakers-say-the-border-is-dangerous-fbi-stats-show-thats-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican lawmakers say the border is dangerous. FBI stats show that&#8217;s bullshit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       As Republicans continue to wield immigration as a political cudgel, GOP lawmakers have painted the U.S.-Mexico border as a dangerous place and invoked racist language likening the influx of asylum seekers to an &#8220;invasion.&#8221; For example, when unveiling his Operation Lone Star border crackdown in June 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott claimed\u00a0border crossers had unleashed &#8220;carnage&#8221; in South Texas and that &#8220;people are\u00a0being threatened on a daily basis with guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Republicans continue to wield immigration as a political cudgel, GOP lawmakers have painted the U.S.-Mexico border as a dangerous place and invoked racist language likening the influx of asylum seekers to an &#8220;invasion.&#8221; For example, when unveiling his Operation Lone Star border crackdown in June 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott claimed\u00a0border crossers had unleashed &#8220;carnage&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}