{"id":26439,"date":"2011-09-08T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26439"},"modified":"2011-09-08T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:09:37","slug":"in-case-ya-missed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26439","title":{"rendered":"In case Ya Missed It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a massive<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/news\/local\/Protesters-wont-face--129442093.html\" target=\"_blank\"> rally in Charlotte, NC this week.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Tuesday\u2019s rally, nearly 200 participants gathered at Central Piedmont Community College\u2019s central campus to protest policies that they say discriminate against undocumented immigrants. The protesters blocked traffic, at the intersection of Kings Drive and Fourth Street, while chanting \u201ceducation not deportation\u201d and \u201cundocumented and unafraid.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Law Enforcement was on the job&#8230; The local LEOs anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mecklenburg jail officials said Wednesday they determined that 10 of 15 protesters arrested at an immigration rally Tuesday are in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Wednesday, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said that in keeping with the jail\u2019s policy to screen all arrestees, the 15 people arrested at Tuesday\u2019s rally were fingerprinted, photographed and screened to determine whether they are in the country legally.<\/p>\n<p>Jail authorities also did criminal background checks on the protesters, Rush said, and found that none of them had criminal records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPer Immigration Customs Enforcement, any arrestee charged by CMPD during the protest was not to be given detainers, but released on their own recognizance,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must admit a certain grudging respect for the protestors. They are merely pointing up the feckless, and reckless, nature of our immigration policies. Drawing easy parallels with the lunch-counter protests of decades ago has some merit.<\/p>\n<p>IS\u00a0 illegal immigration simply a civil rights issue?\u00a0 Where do we, as a nation, draw those lines? Is ANY lawbreaker just an oppressed minority yearning for freedom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a massive rally in Charlotte, NC this week. At Tuesday\u2019s rally, nearly 200 participants &hellip; <a title=\"In case Ya Missed It?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In case Ya Missed It?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,20,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-illegal-immigrants","category-blather","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}