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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Gang members next door and dead dogs dumped in your yard? Don\u2019t complain, or you\u2019ll be called racist. Illegal immigration has become so deeply embedded for so long within contemporary power politics, demography, and cultural change, so charged with accusations of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, that we have forgotten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2TA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":959,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/please-a-little-honesty-about-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11134,"position":0},"title":"Please, A Little Honesty about Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport the more than 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. 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