{"id":12691,"date":"2024-01-20T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2024-01-20T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:38:28","slug":"southern-border-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12691","title":{"rendered":"Southern Border Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Abbott..signed another bill into law&#8230;Senate Bill 3&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/politics\/texas-new-immigration-bills\/269-734fa738-702d-4ec0-9995-ebe696c5acdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">devotes<\/a>&nbsp;$1.54 billion in taxpayer funds to the continued construction of the border wall\u2014which comes in addition to the $1.5 billion worth of contracts the state has already devoted to building about 40 miles of wall&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/12\/18\/texas-governor-abbott-bills-border-wall-illegal-entry-crime-sb3-sb4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the last two years<\/a>\u2014and shells out some $40 million in funds for state troopers to patrol hotspots where illegal immigrants are likely to be.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/19\/southern-border-showdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/19\/southern-border-showdown\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Abbott..signed another bill into law&#8230;Senate Bill 3 devotes $1.54 billion in taxpayer funds to the continued construction of the border wall\u2014which comes in addition to the $1.5 billion worth of contracts the state has already devoted to building about 40 miles of wall in the last two years\u2014and shells out some $40 million in funds for state troopers to patrol hotspots where illegal immigrants are likely to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/19\/southern-border-showdown\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,433,1193,1326,26,25,279,21],"class_list":["post-12691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-border-wall","tag-government-spending","tag-greg-abbott","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-spending","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}