{"id":791540,"date":"2022-09-08T05:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T05:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=254615"},"modified":"2022-09-08T05:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T05:26:31","slug":"clear-the-smokescreen-from-immigration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/08\/clear-the-smokescreen-from-immigration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear the Smokescreen from Immigration Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Esquivel had a lot to celebrate when he\u00a0graduated\u00a0this past June from LA\u2019s Hollywood High School. He had done well academically, played on the baseball team, and rendered valuable service to his school, including work as a mentor to at-risk incoming freshmen. But when his friends planned a road trip to San Diego, he opted  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/08\/clear-the-smokescreen-from-immigration-policy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/08\/clear-the-smokescreen-from-immigration-policy\/\">Clear the Smokescreen from Immigration Policy<\/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\/2022\/09\/08\/clear-the-smokescreen-from-immigration-policy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Esquivel had a lot to celebrate when he\u00a0graduated\u00a0this past June from LA\u2019s Hollywood High School. He had done well academically, played on the baseball team, and rendered valuable service to his school, including work as a mentor to at-risk incom&#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\/791540"}],"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=791540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791541,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791540\/revisions\/791541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}