{"id":71271,"date":"2017-04-06T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71271"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:00:24","slug":"illegal-immigration-plunges-in-first-quarter-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71271","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigration plunges in first quarter of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-illegal-immigration-plunges-trump-crackdown-222147534.html\">AFP<\/a>, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security that the flow of illegal immigrants in March fell 30% from February and 64% from a year ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen an absolutely amazing drop in the number of migrants coming out of Central America,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular we have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of families, the number of children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decline comes after a surge in the last three months of 2016 that appeared to be a reaction to the looming crackdown Trump promised in his presidential campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how that works. Just talking tough seems to have discouraged illegal immigration as opposed to the previous administration&#8217;s open arms policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to AFP, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security that &hellip; <a title=\"Illegal immigration plunges in first quarter of 2017\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71271\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illegal immigration plunges in first quarter of 2017<\/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-71271","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\/71271","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=71271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}