{"id":1519,"date":"2009-04-16T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:07:26","slug":"tightening-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/tightening-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Tightening the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week from this morning is scheduled to be my first morning in Mexico in almost a year.<\/p>\n<p>So this headline just caught my attention: <a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090416\/wl_nm\/us_mexico_drugs_1'>Dozen die in Mexico clash ahead of Obama trip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I clicked it to see where the latest mayhem happened and where President Barack Obama is planning to go.<\/p>\n<p>In my quick scan (which answered both of my original questions), I saw this:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>The Obama administration is tightening the U.S.-Mexico border<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Good deal. Maybe that will slow down the illegal flow (of drugs and &#8220;undocumented workers&#8221;) northward.<\/p>\n<p>But the sentence continues:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>to prevent trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexican cartels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week from this morning is scheduled to be my first morning in Mexico in almost a year. So this headline just caught my attention: Dozen die in Mexico clash ahead of Obama trip I clicked it to see where the latest mayhem happened and where President Barack Obama is planning to go. In my &#8230; <a title=\"Tightening the Border\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/tightening-the-border\/\" aria-label=\"More on Tightening the Border\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,463],"tags":[546,171],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thisandthat","tag-borders","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}