{"id":273,"date":"2005-09-02T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2005-09-02T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T17:58:06","slug":"these-people-are-not-refugees-they-are-american-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/these-people-are-not-refugees-they-are-american-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"These People Are Not Refugees, They Are American Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick from Detroit, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus just said in a speech aired on CNN,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>We come to you this morning as a sense of urgency.  First of all, these people are not refugess, they are American citizens. They pay taxes, they raise their families, they help America grow and I wish the media would called them American citizens and not refugess which relegates them to another whole status.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, well said.  I will be noting which channels and media outlets refer to these people as refugees from now on.  See also said that Detroit is offering to airlift out 500 families immediately and to house and feed them.  That is probably around 2000 people.  While that isn&#8217;t a whole lot, if a few more cities did the same we would have one issue resolved immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick from Detroit, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus just said in a speech aired on CNN, &#8220;We come to you this morning as a sense of urgency. First of all, these people are not refugess, they are American citizens. They pay taxes, they raise their families, they help America grow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[175,351,449,500,502],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-disasters","tag-katrina","tag-nola","tag-politics","tag-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}