{"id":49061,"date":"2016-02-12T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49061"},"modified":"2016-02-11T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:35:17","slug":"why-is-the-obama-administration-targeting-central-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/12\/why-is-the-obama-administration-targeting-central-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the Obama Administration Targeting Central Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601506.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2016_02_12\/Suyapa_Portillo_2016_02_12.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601506.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2016_02_12\/uprising_2016_02_12.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Suyapa Portillo<\/strong>, an Assistant Professor of Chicano\/a-Latino\/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, she has a blog on the Huffington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote a letter on February 11th to Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, calling into question the Obama administration&#8217;s ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants, particularly those who fled from Central America. A month ago Sanders had said to Obama directly, &#8220;As a country, we have a fundamental responsibility to keep families together and welcome those seeking refuge from extreme violence and persecution.&#8221; While his words are likely a direct appeal to Latino voters, they ring true. <\/p>\n<p>Under a Democratic president, the US has deported more immigrants than ever before. But even in the President&#8217;s last term in office, instead of slowing down, a new program that began earlier this year has left immigrant communities on edge.<\/p>\n<p>Little is being reported in the mainstream media about the terror that ICE raids and deportations are causing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Suyapa Portillo, an Assistant Professor of Chicano\/a-Latino\/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, she has a blog on the Huffington Post. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote a letter on February 11th to Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, calling into question the Obama administration&#8217;s ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants, particularly those who fled from Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061","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=49061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49063,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061\/revisions\/49063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}