{"id":807,"date":"2011-05-09T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:29:08","slug":"bnhr-executive-director-to-meet-with-obama-during-el-paso-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/bnhr-executive-director-to-meet-with-obama-during-el-paso-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"BNHR Executive Director To Meet With Obama During El Paso Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BarackObamaImmigration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-808\" title=\"BarackObamaImmigration\" src=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BarackObamaImmigration-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BarackObamaImmigration-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BarackObamaImmigration-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BarackObamaImmigration.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d BNHR Executive Director Fernando Garcia has accepted an invitation to meet with President Obama during a visit here on Tuesday. The White House confirmed last week that president is coming to the state to speak to Texans about immigration. Garcia will attend a private meeting with Obama and others before the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scheduled speech at the Chamizal National Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>During his campaign in 2008, Obama made a promise to make immigration reform a top priority if elected. Since then, the Hispanic community has watched as immigration reform has fallen by the wayside, while ICE crackdowns have increased since the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>In a report released in October 2011, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton touted the record number of deportations under Obama and the approximately $50 million in financial sanctions against employers, which is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more than the total amount of audits and debarments than during the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/iH3I8O\">entire<\/a> previous administration.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>El Pasoans are no doubt anxious to see the President, who won El Paso county 65% over 33% against John McCain in 2008. Part of his victory with Hispanics was his promise to fix a broken immigration system that wastes money, resources and makes our border less safe.<\/p>\n<p>We ask the President to remember his 2008 promises and put border security first in both his actions and his words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d BNHR Executive Director Fernando Garcia has accepted an invitation to meet with President Obama during a visit here on Tuesday. The White House confirmed last week that president is coming&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}