{"id":11253,"date":"2018-06-28T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2018-06-28T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:09:25","slug":"progressives-should-back-up-their-rhetoric-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-should-back-up-their-rhetoric-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives Should Back Up Their Rhetoric on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Liberals, invite illegal aliens to live in your communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>here are lots of short-term solutions to address the wave of immigrants who have swarmed the border in an effort to enter the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Why not use the thousands of currently half-empty residence halls at American colleges and universities to help house families from Central America and Mexico who await adjudication of their asylum claims?<\/p>\n<p>The federal government could contract out to universities such as UCLA, Stanford, Cal-Berkeley, and large public universities in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico to offer migrants temporary summertime shelter and sustenance. Law schools could offer pro bono legal counseling, and medical schools could offer health services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/immigration-debate-progressives-should-back-up-their-rhetoric\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Liberals, invite illegal aliens to live in your communities. There are lots of short-term solutions to address the wave of immigrants who have swarmed the border in an effort to enter the U.S. illegally. Why not use the thousands of currently half-empty residence halls at American colleges and universities [&hellip;]<\/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":[1168,1167,111,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Vv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6891,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/intelligent-populism-vs-mindless-progressivism\/","url_meta":{"origin":11253,"position":0},"title":"Intelligent Populism vs. Mindless Progressivism","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0PJ Media\u00a0 New Deal Liberals Transform into the Faux Populist Radical Left With elections looming in 2014, it is about time for Barack Obama to gear up another progressive \u201cwar\u201d against the rich, the limb loppers, the fat cats, the tonsil pullers, the \u201cenemies\u201d of Latinos,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Punditry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Punditry","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/opinion\/punditry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6580622819_b052151bcb-261x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8224,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/class-race-and-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11253,"position":1},"title":"Class, Race, And Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Peregrine The driving forces behind three decades of de facto non-enforcement of federal immigration law were largely the interests of elites across the political spectrum. 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