{"id":12079,"date":"2019-04-02T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12079"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:15:37","slug":"the-real-prime-target-of-trumps-threat-to-close-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-real-prime-target-of-trumps-threat-to-close-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The real prime target of Trump\u2019s threat to close the border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-02-Search-results-Startpage-com.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-02-Search-results-Startpage-com.png 491w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-02-Search-results-Startpage-com-300x87.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><figcaption>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/\">https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">============================<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>American Thinker<\/strong>, by Thomas Lifson &#8212; April 2, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I  think that President Trump is going after what the Left calls \u201croot  causes\u201d in their typical grab for money to redistribute, purportedly to  eliminate some social problem they blame on poverty. But Trump is not  seeking a nebulous version of Ultimate Social Justice, he focused on the  real obstacles to immigration reform, and I think he has a specific  goal in mind as he threatens a complete border closure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Simply  stated, at home, Trump wants big business, as embodied in the US  Chamber of Commerce, to grasp that he will not allow them to continue  stonewall on open borders, targeting their donations to prevent any  legal reform. Ever since NAFTA, huge investments have taken place  predicted on the free movement of good across the border. Those  investments are now held hostage by Trump\u2019s threat. The implicit deal:  either loudly and emphatically lobby for a simple revision to  immigration law to allow asylum claimants to wait on the southern side  of the border while their claims are adjudicated or endure a  semi-catastrophic disruption.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the_real_prime_target_of_trumps_threat_to_close_the_border.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the_real_prime_target_of_trumps_threat_to_close_the_border.html<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>============================ American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson &#8212; April 2, 2019 Excerpt: I think that President Trump is going after what the Left calls \u201croot causes\u201d in their typical grab for money to redistribute, purportedly to eliminate some social problem they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-real-prime-target-of-trumps-threat-to-close-the-border\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12081,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions\/12081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}