{"id":575768,"date":"2010-05-21T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011924608_letterseditor.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:36:09","slug":"seattle-city-council-vs-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575768","title":{"rendered":"Seattle City Council vs. Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dude, where\u2019s my representative?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government representatives don\u2019t seem to work for their constituents anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that less than 40 percent of Seattle residents support the recent City Council decision to boycott Arizona businesses. It just doesn\u2019t seem right that the city of Seattle should interject itself in the politics of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>It would be fitting for Seattle to empathize with Arizona and the problems that illegal immigrants bring with them to that state. Instead of boycotting Arizona businesses, how about confronting the federal government and demanding that the government secure our borders?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Washington State having \u201chuman drug trains\u201d entering our country from Canada. Imagine our residents having to provide the social services to thousands of illegal immigrants who pay little or nothing in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona is trying to do something to confront crime: There are thousands of illegal immigrants who cross its border illegally each month. Yes, many if not most of these illegal immigrants are hard-working folks who provide valuable service to farmers and so on. But there is a legal way for them to continue to enter the United States and do this work.<\/p>\n<p>If they choose to cross our borders illegally, we should have the right to demand they be arrested and dealt with. The City Council\u2019s action was just wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Ray DeJong, Sequim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude, where\u2019s my representative? Government representatives don\u2019t seem to work for their constituents anymore. I understand that less than 40 percent of Seattle residents support the recent City Council decision to boycott Arizona businesses. It just doesn\u2019t seem right that the city of Seattle should interject itself in the politics of Arizona. It would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575768","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}