{"id":3,"date":"2014-11-25T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2014-11-25T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:07:57","slug":"what-a-salvadorian-immigrant-thinks-about-obamas-immigration-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"What a Salvadorian Immigrant Thinks About Obama&#8217;s Immigration Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the kind woman (who helps me with my Spanish) who is the Janitor for our building at work what she thought of Obama&#8217;s immigration order. She is an immigrant from El Salvador. I thought she would say something nice about it. Here&#8217;s what she said: &#8220;Some people come over here thinking everything is free, free, free. They don&#8217;t want to work. They are just looking for a handout from the government. They are always pregnant, having many babies. You see cars at the store, big cars, full of people. They say, &#8220;Baby food is free. Rent is free.&#8221; They just want to have babies, take a handout, and sit around and watch TV all day. It&#8217;s good for people who want to work, like us, but a lot of people don&#8217;t want to work. They don&#8217;t look for a job. The come over here because they believe the government will give them everything. In El Salvador, nothing is free. You have to buy everything.&#8221; She said more, but that&#8217;s the theme of her response, which was not what I expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the kind woman (who helps me with my Spanish) who is the Janitor for our building at work what she thought of Obama&#8217;s immigration order. She is an immigrant from El Salvador. I thought she would say something nice about it. Here&#8217;s what she said: &#8220;Some people come over here thinking everything is free, free, free. They don&#8217;t want to work. They are just looking for a handout from the government. They are always pregnant, having many babies. You see cars at the store, big cars, full of people. They say, &#8220;Baby food is free. Rent is free.&#8221; They just want to have babies, take a handout, and sit around and watch TV all day. It&#8217;s good for people who want to work, like us, but a lot of people don&#8217;t want to work. They don&#8217;t look for a job. The come over here because they believe the government will give them everything. In El Salvador, nothing is free. You have to buy everything.&#8221; She said more, but that&#8217;s the theme of her response, which was not what I expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffdawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}