{"id":696,"date":"2011-10-20T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-08-21T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:49:20","slug":"r-i-governor-chafee%e2%80%99s-less-than-confident-response-must-see-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/10\/20\/r-i-governor-chafee%e2%80%99s-less-than-confident-response-must-see-video\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I. Governor Chafee\u2019s Less Than Confident Response &#8211; Must See Video!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Lincoln Chafee has turned Rhode Island into a sanctuary state by executive order. One of his first acts as governor was to repeal his predecessor\u2019s policy of having police cooperate with federal immigration authorities. He also bypassed the state legislature to grant in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens, and is considering offering Utah-style driving certificates to illegal aliens. Meanwhile, Rhode Island is suffering from acute budget deficits and has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a local reporter whether his actions might encourage more illegal immigration, Governor Chafee responds with an answer he himself doesn\u2019t seem to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Why should we?<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JfwSgedpxvk?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JfwSgedpxvk?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Lincoln Chafee has turned Rhode Island into a sanctuary state by executive order. One of his first acts as governor was to repeal his predecessor\u2019s policy of having police cooperate with federal immigration authorities. He also bypassed the state legislature to grant in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens, and is considering offering Utah-style driving<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/10\/20\/r-i-governor-chafee%e2%80%99s-less-than-confident-response-must-see-video\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,11,4,10,7,14],"tags":[1189,133,1188],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9866,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/9866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}