{"id":2458,"date":"2012-06-12T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T23:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:36:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T23:36:05","slug":"american-evangelicals-pushing-for-immigration-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"American Evangelicals pushing for Immigration Openness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPerhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2012\/06\/immigration-evangelical-obama-romney-election-\/1?csp=34news&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader#.T9gKYdlTFRo\" target=\"_blank\">there is hope<\/a> for the Southern Baptist Bible Belters yet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/juneweb-only\/new-statement-on-immigration-reform.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+christianitytoday%2Fctmag+%28Christianity+Today+Magazine%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Evangelicals are now working for immigrants<\/a>, now that D.C. cannot agree on how to deal with this issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso now that foreign students are much needed (Why Americans cannot do the job just baffles me...no experience with struggle of hardship?) in the advanced fields, and <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/06\/12\/0149237\/2013-h-1b-visa-supply-nearly-exhausted?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+Reader&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">it is said <\/a>that U.S. will face a shortage of 224,000 tech workers by 2018 unless immigration rules are loosened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps there is hope for the Southern Baptist Bible Belters yet. Evangelicals are now working for immigrants, now that D.C. cannot agree on how to deal with this issue. Also now that foreign students are much needed (Why Americans cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2458\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}