{"id":179042,"date":"2026-02-06T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179042"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:09:46","slug":"weekend-open-thread-585","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=179042","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror-333x333.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Illegal-alien-protesters-protecting-criminal-illegal-aliens-man-points-at-reflection-in-mirror.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the illegal aliens being detained and deported are people who committed fraud and violent crimes including rape and murder. One could reasonably think that the taxpayers would not want taxpayer dollars squandered. Taxpayers expect the government to take on crime and to play a role in protecting the community. Ironically, many leftists obstructing federal immigration efforts to remove these illegal aliens, including those who committed fraud, also want the government to spend more money on social programs. This is but one contradiction. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the illegal aliens being detained and deported are people who committed fraud and violent crimes &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=179042\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}