{"id":80161,"date":"2018-06-25T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80161"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:05:22","slug":"mattis-2-military-bases-to-house-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80161","title":{"rendered":"Mattis: 2 Military bases to house illegal immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/pentagon-says-2-military-bases-to-house-immigrants-1.534596\">Associated Press<\/a>, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that two unnamed military bases are preparing temporary camps to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Speaking to reporters traveling with him to Asia on Sunday, Mattis said the military has housed people in the past, including Vietnamese fleeing their country as well as Americans needing shelter in the wake of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consider that to be a logistics function that&#8217;s quite appropriate&#8221; for the department, Mattis said.<\/p>\n<p>The request for temporary shelter \u2014 amid a growing political battle over detained migrants \u2014 was made by the Department of Health and Human Services and accepted by the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>HHS has assessed facilities on four military bases: Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, plus three bases in Texas: Dyess Air Force Base, Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Defense Department won&#8217;t operate the facilities, that function falls to the Department of of Health and Human Services from July until the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that two unnamed military bases &hellip; <a title=\"Mattis: 2 Military bases to house illegal immigrants\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80161\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mattis: 2 Military bases to house illegal immigrants<\/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":[237,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80161","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=80161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}