{"id":963028,"date":"2023-01-20T06:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=272143"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:51:19","slug":"beyond-the-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/20\/beyond-the-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us agree that the U.S. immigration system is in dire need of reform. But\u00a0inflammatory\u00a0rhetoric and\u00a0policies designed to keep immigrants away\u00a0won\u2019t get us there. When I was in law school, I witnessed firsthand the difficulties faced by asylum seekers. These desperate people had already endured terrifying conditions in their home countries and harrowing journeys  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/20\/beyond-the-border-crisis\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/20\/beyond-the-border-crisis\/\">Beyond the Border Crisis<\/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\/2023\/01\/20\/beyond-the-border-crisis\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us agree that the U.S. immigration system is in dire need of reform. But\u00a0inflammatory\u00a0rhetoric and\u00a0policies designed to keep immigrants away\u00a0won\u2019t get us there. When I was in law school, I witnessed firsthand the difficulties faced by asylum se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8122,"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\/963028"}],"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\/8122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963029,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963028\/revisions\/963029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}