{"id":10209,"date":"2019-05-01T06:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2019-05-01T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:30:11","slug":"a-fee-to-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10209","title":{"rendered":"A fee to flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of The Donald&#8217;s many offenses against ordinary decency, against this country&#8217;s ideals, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-wants-to-charge-refugees-a-fee-to-claim-asylum-in-the-us-2019-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surely among the worst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Donald Trump has proposed the introduction of <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">a fee for migrants seeking asylum<\/span> in the US, outlining the policy in a memorandum released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Among the series of new measures the president lays out in the memorandum is the imposition of &#8220;<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">fees for asylum applications and work permit applications<\/span>.&#8221; Monday&#8217;s memorandum did not outline how much migrants might be charged to claim asylum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One imagines the Statue of Liberty with her palm extended, rather than holding aloft a torch.  The squalor inside Donald Trump goes all the way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of The Donald&#8217;s many offenses against ordinary decency, against this country&#8217;s ideals, this is surely among the worst. President Donald Trump has proposed the introduction of a fee for migrants seeking asylum in the US, outlining the policy in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}