{"id":950,"date":"2011-08-18T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=950"},"modified":"2011-08-19T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:45:21","slug":"will-gov-susana-martinez-take-away-drivers-license-from-man-who-saved-albuquerque-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/will-gov-susana-martinez-take-away-drivers-license-from-man-who-saved-albuquerque-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Gov. Susana Martinez Take Away Driver&#8217;s License From Man Who Saved Albuquerque Girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ap11081601938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Diaz Chacon\" src=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ap11081601938-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By now you have heard the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-08-17\/justice\/new.mexico.kidnapping_1_kidnapper-cnn-light-pole?_s=PM:CRIME\">story<\/a> of an Albuquerque man who chased after a child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio D\u00c3\u00adaz Chac\u00c3\u00b3n, 24, used his truck to chase the man who had snatched the young girl and  fled with her in his van. He rescued the child when the kidnappers&#8217; vehicle crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Chacon&#8217;s story was captivated people around the country and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Antonio-Diaz-Chacon\/261364050557772\">at least<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Help-buy-our-hero-Antonio-Diaz-Chacon-a-new-Washing-Machine\/162169817192985\">two<\/a> Facebook fan pages for the young hero.<\/p>\n<p>But something was missing from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/dpp\/news\/crime\/hero-tells-of-girl%27s-dramatic-rescue\">mainstream<\/a> media&#8217;s reporting of this amazing story. Chacon is an undocumented immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the the fact that New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has <a title=\"Read The Fine Print On Gov. Suana Martinez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s License Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/news\/read-the-fine-print-on-gov-suana-martinezs-drivers-license-plan\">vowed<\/a> to take away licenses from undocumented <a title=\"New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s License Scheme Is Filled With Fail\" href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/news\/new-mexico-gov-susana-martinez-drivers-license-scheme-is-filled-with-fail\">immigrants<\/a> in the state, we have to wonder:<\/p>\n<p>Will Gov. Susana Martinez take away this young father&#8217;s driver&#8217;s license next month?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: After some prodding, Fox News Latino <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/hero-who-saved-6-year-old-girl-showered-with-praise-offerings\/\">updated<\/a> their story to include Chacon&#8217;s legal status. FNL is now the only English-language outlet reporting that fact. UnivisionNoticias.com was the first to <a href=\"http:\/\/noticias.univision.com\/estados-unidos\/latinos\/article\/2011-08-17\/indocumentado-antonio-diaz-secuestro-albuquerque\">report<\/a> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have heard the amazing story of an Albuquerque man who chased after a child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl&#8217;s life. Antonio D\u00c3\u00adaz Chac\u00c3\u00b3n, 24, used his truck to chase the&#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\/950"}],"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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}