{"id":28472,"date":"2019-01-09T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:22:49","slug":"is-the-us-facing-an-immigration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28472","title":{"rendered":"Is the US facing an immigration crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"74.0326340326\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> President Donald Trump is refusing to give up his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the country&#8217;s border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/mexico.html\">Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats won&#8217;t give him the more than $5bn he wants to build it.<\/p>\n<p>The stalemate has led to the second-longest partial US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/gov-shutdown-long-affected-190107150120233.html\">government shutdown<\/a> in history.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Trump<\/a> went on prime-time television on Tuesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/trump-case-wall-tv-address-democrats-respond-190108211603353.html\">argue<\/a> that the barrier is needed to stop what he calls a growing humanitarian and security crisis.<\/p>\n<p>We ask, is there a crisis at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/spotlight\/mexico-border.html\">US-Mexico border<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sahar Aziz &#8211; founding director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights, professor of law at Rutgers University<\/p>\n<p>David Ward &#8211; director of the National Association of Former US Border Patrol Agents<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Mitchell &#8211; political analyst and Professor at Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump is refusing to give up his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the country&#8217;s border with Mexico. But Democrats won&#8217;t give him the more than $5bn he wants to build it. The stalemate has led to the second-longest partial US government shutdown in history. In response, Trump went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}