{"id":8308,"date":"2013-08-26T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8308"},"modified":"2013-08-26T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:11:17","slug":"struggling-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8308","title":{"rendered":"Struggling to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my latest attempt to change someones mind about immigration.\u00a0 It is difficult because most people have their minds made up on this issue.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mostly an &#8220;open borders&#8221; person.\u00a0 But I understand that the thought of open borders is too scary for most people. So my fallback position is to get the immigrant receiving countries to allow legal immigration of about one percent of their populations each year.\u00a0 And to give special preference to refugees from wars.\u00a0 Like the people in Syria right now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W04hI4skv1g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some people have cautioned me that I shouldn&#8217;t use any incident related to the Holocaust to illustrate a point about immigration because it depreciates the Holocaust and creates a false parallel.\u00a0 To that I would answer that the families of the thirty thousand plus people being held in detention centers by the US government do feel like they are living through a holocaust.\u00a0 And we like the citizens of the USA in 1939 are allowing it to happen.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t about the Holocaust this is about the US&#8217;s will to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my latest attempt to change someones mind about immigration.\u00a0 It is difficult because most people have their minds made up on this issue.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mostly an &#8220;open borders&#8221; person.\u00a0 But I understand that the thought of open borders is too scary for most people. So my fallback position is to get the immigrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radical-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}