{"id":1328,"date":"2007-03-22T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2007-03-22T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:35:58","slug":"mission-viejo-adopts-anti-immigrant-homeland-security-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/03\/22\/mission-viejo-adopts-anti-immigrant-homeland-security-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Viejo Adopts Anti-Immigrant Homeland Security Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_03_22_guizar.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_03_22_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/cityofmissionviejo.org\/images\/nav\/naviblu3_01.gif\" alt=\"Mission Viejo City Council\" \/><em>GUEST: Monica Guizar, Employment Policy Attorney with the National Immigration Law Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, Mission Viejo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to require city contractors to screen their employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 immigration status. By a vote of five to zero, the affluent Orange County city of Mission Viejo has become the first in the state and one of the few in the nation to approve such an ordinance. Starting in July, city contractors would be compelled to participate in the Department of Homeland Security\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Basic Pilot Program in order to verify their employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 eligibility to work in the U.S. If they fail to do so, they risk losing their contracts. The program has been criticized on the grounds that the federal databases are outdated and could prevent even documented workers from being approved. Worse, the measure will likely encourage racial profiling. A similar measure passed in Hazelton, Pennsylvania is being legally challenged by those who say immigration law should only be enforced by the federal government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Monica Guizar, Employment Policy Attorney with the National Immigration Law Center Last Monday, Mission Viejo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to require city contractors to screen their employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 immigration status. By a vote of five to zero, the affluent Orange County city of Mission Viejo has become the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}