{"id":21859,"date":"2011-01-13T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21859"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:22:12","slug":"npr-latino-community-sighs-with-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21859","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Latino Community Sighs With Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, because they’re so persecuted every time there’s a mass murder<\/a>;<\/p>\n

I wasn’t the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting. I wasn’t looking however to read about what had happened. My auntie had already filled me in \u2014 “Someone tried to murder una representante. People have been killed,” she’d reported. What I wanted to know was the killer’s surname.<\/p>\n

My eyes scanned the mobile papers. I held my breath. Finally, I saw it: Jared Loughner. Not a Ramirez, Gonzalez or Garcia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I admit sadly that it was only after I saw the shooter’s gringo surname that I was able to go on and read the rest of the news about those who lost their lives on Saturday and those who, like Rep. Giffords, were severely wounded. I admit also that I felt some small relief in knowing that at least this shooting wouldn’t be used as a reason for yet another backlash against immigrants, or at least that\u2019s what I’m hoping. In this political climate, it’s hard to tell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Backlash against immigrants”, huh? I think there’s a backlash against illegal immigrants, not just plain old every day legal immigrants, bint. When an illegal immigrant kills an American, it is completely preventable by enforcing the law. That’s kind of our point. <\/p>\n

And what the hell is a “collective sigh of brown relief”? I mean, I know what it sounds like, but that’s probably not what you meant. We’re so glad that you find some comfort in the fact that a “gringo” named Loughner killed some other gringos instead some random criminal who found his way across the border illegally. <\/p>\n

Oh, by the way; I meant to say “chola<\/em> bint” since you delight in using “gringo” on NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, because they’re so persecuted every time there’s a mass murder; I wasn’t the only person … NPR: Latino Community Sighs With Relief<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}