{"id":273691,"date":"2021-08-13T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211627"},"modified":"2021-08-13T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:49:09","slug":"the-path-to-citizenship-is-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/13\/the-path-to-citizenship-is-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path to Citizenship is the Path to a More Democratic America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If negotiations in Congress open a path to citizenship this year for the roughly 10.2 million undocumented immigrants in America, the U.S. economy will grow by as much as $1.7 trillion over ten years, according to a joint study conducted by the Center for American Progress and the University of California, Davis&#8217;s Global Migration Center.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/the-path-to-citizenship-is-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-america\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/the-path-to-citizenship-is-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-america\/\">The Path to Citizenship is the Path to a More Democratic America<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/the-path-to-citizenship-is-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-america\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If negotiations in Congress open a path to citizenship this year for the roughly 10.2 million undocumented immigrants in America, the U.S. economy will grow by as much as $1.7 trillion over ten years, according to a joint study conducted by the Center &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273691"}],"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\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274301,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273691\/revisions\/274301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}