{"id":26070,"date":"2023-04-24T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2023\/04\/24\/local-public-officials-have-earned-our-skepticism\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:21:42","slug":"local-public-officials-have-earned-our-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2023\/04\/24\/local-public-officials-have-earned-our-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Public Officials Have Earned our Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government that maintains the trust of the governed has long been a hallmark of a vibrant and healthy democracy. But if you\u2019re feeling lately that government is not leveling with you or acting in the best interests of the people, rest assured you\u2019re not alone. For example, for years, Americans have listened to lawmakers peddle hollow \u201cpublic interest\u201d arguments advancing legislated or de facto sanctuary policies at the state and local level, while to no one\u2019s surprise, the only beneficiaries have been illegal aliens and their special interests.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/local-public-officials-have-earned-our-skepticism\" hreflang=\"en\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government that maintains the trust of the governed has long been a hallmark of a vibrant and healthy democracy. But if you\u2019re feeling lately that government is not leveling with you or acting in the best interests of the people, rest assured you\u2019re not alone. For example, for years, Americans have listened to lawmakers peddle<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2023\/04\/24\/local-public-officials-have-earned-our-skepticism\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":26069,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070"}],"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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26070"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}