{"id":1544880,"date":"2024-03-09T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2efc989f1c9a171e801771dcde35ed6a"},"modified":"2024-03-09T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:47:30","slug":"the-left-needs-a-positive-vision-for-how-immigration-policy-should-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/09\/the-left-needs-a-positive-vision-for-how-immigration-policy-should-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Needs a Positive Vision for How Immigration Policy Should Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militarized borders &mdash; comprising walls, barriers, fences and repressive border policies &mdash; have become something of the norm in today&rsquo;s world, which otherwise is in favor of the free movement of goods and capital. But that wasn&rsquo;t always the case. The United States, for example, had no federal immigration laws during the first century of its existence. There are strong moral...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-left-needs-a-positive-vision-for-how-immigration-policy-should-actually-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-left-needs-a-positive-vision-for-how-immigration-policy-should-actually-work\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Democrats move right on immigration, the left must boldly embrace open borders, says author John Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,231,133,1383,463,280,75766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544881,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544880\/revisions\/1544881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}