{"id":822,"date":"2011-05-12T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=822"},"modified":"2011-05-12T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:07:05","slug":"bnhr-responds-to-obamas-immigration-speech-in-el-paso-may-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/bnhr-responds-to-obamas-immigration-speech-in-el-paso-may-10-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"BNHR Responds To Obama&#8217;s Immigration Speech In El Paso, May 10 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our initial reaction to the President&#8217;s speech in El Paso yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>1. We appreciate him keeping this important issue alive and listening to  Americans who are saying the U.S. needs reform now.<\/p>\n<p>2. We would like to  see an end to &#8220;border security&#8221; first policies, because as he said &#8220;we  are already going above and beyond.&#8221; It&#8217;s time for something more,  something better and something concrete.<\/p>\n<p>3. And lastly, we are  disappointed that he continues to deny his power as President of the  U.S. to grant administrative relief to hard-working families and  students facing deportation. He said only we have the power to make CIR a  reality, but he has the power to stop raids and deportations right now.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire speech below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6zXvs-8RFU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the spirit  of taking the President up on his challenge to step up, I&#8217;d like to ask  y&#8217;all to share your thoughts below.\u00c2\u00a0 What did you take away from it?  Was there something you wish you had heard? Please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our initial reaction to the President&#8217;s speech in El Paso yesterday: 1. We appreciate him keeping this important issue alive and listening to Americans who are saying the U.S. needs reform now. 2. We&#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\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}