{"id":4753,"date":"2021-03-22T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:42:05","slug":"the-crisis-is-in-washington-overwhelmed-border-officials-urge-d-c-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4753","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The crisis is in Washington\u2019: Overwhelmed border officials urge D.C. to act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Biden\u2019s critics say his messaging<\/a> is squarely to blame for the thousands of migrants coming now: But more than half a dozen asylum-seekers interviewed by POLITICO said they would make the trek regardless of who was in the White House. Some of their reasons: lack of job opportunities, concern for the safety of their family and devastation from last year\u2019s back-to-back hurricanes that walloped parts of Central America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Reyes, the decision came after she received threats that Meylin and Freddy would be kidnapped and killed if she didn\u2019t pay a fee to keep them safe. She said she knew the threats were real because her husband’s friend recently was kidnapped, tortured and killed even though his family paid the ransom. (Reyes did not discuss her husband\u2019s whereabouts.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It\u2019s also clear that the number of migrants crossing \u2014 including unaccompanied minors \u2014 has increased sharplywith the start of the Biden administration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This isn\u2019t the first surge of migrants arriving at the border. It happened in 2019 under Trump. It also happened in 2014 under former President Barack Obama.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/20\/us-mexico-border-immigration-crisis-477277<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Biden\u2019s critics say his messaging is squarely to blame for the thousands of migrants coming now: But more than half a dozen asylum-seekers interviewed by POLITICO said they would make the trek regardless of who was in the White House. Some of their reasons: lack of job opportunities, concern for the safety of their family and devastation from last year\u2019s back-to-back hurricanes that walloped parts of Central America.<\/p>\n

For Reyes, the decision came after she received threats that Meylin and Freddy would be kidnapped and killed if she didn\u2019t pay a fee to keep them safe. She said she knew the threats were real because her husband’s friend recently was kidnapped, tortured and killed even though his family paid the ransom. (Reyes did not discuss her husband\u2019s whereabouts.)”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s also clear that the number of migrants crossing \u2014 including unaccompanied minors \u2014 has increased sharply with the start of the Biden administration.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“This isn\u2019t the first surge of migrants arriving at the border. It happened in 2019 under Trump. It also happened in 2014 under former President Barack Obama.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,1224,26,25,945],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-gang-violence","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","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=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}