{"id":127851,"date":"2015-08-31T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/the-interesting-impetus-to-immigration-interception-infrastructure.html"},"modified":"2015-09-15T06:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:51:38","slug":"the-interesting-impetus-to-immigration-interception-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/the-interesting-impetus-to-immigration-interception-infrastructure.html","title":{"rendered":"The Interesting Impetus to Immigration Interception Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More lovely satire from Andy Borowitz.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&ldquo;The estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five billion dollars,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We could easily blow the same amount of money on infrastructure repairs and have nothing to show for it but functioning highways.&rdquo;&#39;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nation-with-crumbling-bridges-and-roads-excited-to-build-giant-wall'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wC463bnUUpFVFoKHenevmbIdA0CfHUIO_fbcVbLhyAJxS6f2MK95drn8VXf1FngpbGzgAoTNZ48GVJLEGPl-PmlYtBArZHG8Ywg2eZfmOGeYFYDg0dA3IRUHqArsJB0w12eyTwj2w6FnA3N7aY6LdiTpDJE187233_7VacVQsaukR90DsTOdm7ujYCDga7ZJWIVGfWC1ZkuL-UO5pWQ=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nation-with-crumbling-bridges-and-roads-excited-to-build-giant-wall'>Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCredit Photograph by Matt York\/AP\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/aWMrvu5uenk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More lovely satire from Andy Borowitz. &#39;Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses. &ldquo;The estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five billion dollars,&rdquo; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/the-interesting-impetus-to-immigration-interception-infrastructure.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Interesting Impetus to Immigration Interception Infrastructure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31298,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/evolution-on-immigration-from-the-gop.html","url_meta":{"origin":127851,"position":0},"title":"Evolution on Immigration from the GOP","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-12 8:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Remarkably enough, after taking a shellacking in the Latino community, the GOP is now championing immigration reform, both politicians and pundits.'On his radio show Thursday, Hannity told his listeners that he has \u201cevolved\u201d on immigration policy and now supports a \u201cpathway to citizenship.\u201d The problem can\u2019t go on, he added.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/18\/fifty-years-of-immigration-policy-is-changing.html","url_meta":{"origin":127851,"position":1},"title":"Fifty Years of Immigration Policy is Changing","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Feb-17 6:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which significantly changed how America accepted people in -- prioritizing family unification, and eliminating national quotas. 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