{"id":545614,"date":"2010-04-28T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=102624"},"modified":"2010-04-28T02:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:30:01","slug":"shakira-protests-arizona-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545614","title":{"rendered":"Shakira Protests Arizona Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Shakira-Protest-Arizona-Immigration-Law.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakira-Protests-Arizona-Immigration-Law\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-102625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shakira will meet with the mayor of Phoenix later this week to help campaign against a new Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration, a spokesperson for the mayor&#8217;s office confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-102624\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Colombian-born Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will speak with Mayor Phil Gordon, a strong critic of the new law, and other city officials on Thursday afternoon. Shakira, best known for her hit single &#8220;Hips Don&#8217;t Lie,&#8221; is also expected to meet with families who could be affected by the Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>The newly enacted immigration statute has come under fire from Hispanic groups, organized labor and civil liberties activists who charge the measure is unconstitutional and will lead to ethnic profiling.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the United Nations presented Shakira with a medal of honor for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of impoverished children across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xuaxz3cOicH6YSHWhcm1_dHLT0w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xuaxz3cOicH6YSHWhcm1_dHLT0w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xuaxz3cOicH6YSHWhcm1_dHLT0w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xuaxz3cOicH6YSHWhcm1_dHLT0w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira will meet with the mayor of Phoenix later this week to help campaign against a new Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration, a spokesperson for the mayor&#8217;s office confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Colombian-born Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will speak with Mayor Phil Gordon, a strong critic of the new law, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}