{"id":621,"date":"2019-03-10T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2019-03-10T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T14:28:02","slug":"refugees-and-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Refugees and the US government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interview with Ilhan Omar, new Congresswoman, and this part of the conversation jumped it at me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01-Bold; font-style: normal; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 20px; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">IO:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: SwiftNeueLTW01, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">I mean, I think, you know, we have had policies that have created refugees around the world, but because we are so focused on those refugees we\u2019ve never asked about those policies. And for the first time, we\u2019re going to have a refugee on that committee who asks about the policies that led to people becoming refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(source: <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/28\/exclusive-ilhan-omar-speaks-out-on-her-twitter-scandal-anti-semitism-and-a-progressive-foreign-policy\/\">https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/28\/exclusive-ilhan-omar-speaks-out-on-her-twitter-scandal-anti-semitism-and-a-progressive-foreign-policy\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interview with Ilhan Omar, new Congresswoman, and this part of the conversation jumped it at me. IO:&nbsp;I mean, I think, you know, we have had policies that have created refugees around the world, but because we are so focused on those refugees we\u2019ve never asked about those policies. And for the first time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}