{"id":243021,"date":"2016-05-12T01:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-border-that-we-keep\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:15:42","slug":"the-border-that-we-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-border-that-we-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Border That We Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"553.10756551706\">\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>Y est\u00e1bamos pasando el r\u00edo cuando nos fusilaron con los m\u00e1useres. Me devolv\u00ed porque \u00e9l me dijo: \u2018S\u00e1came de aqu\u00ed, paisano, no me dejes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Juan Rulfo, <i>El llano en llamas<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On March 30 of this year, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed Donald Trump, effectively backing his bid for the presidency of the United States. NBPC president Brandon Judd heads the organization, which describes itself online as \u201cthe exclusive representative of approximately 18,000 Border Patrol Agents and support personnel assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol.\u201d Judd himself published the NBPC\u2019s pro-Trump communiqu\u00e9, asserting that \u201cif we do not secure our borders, American communities will continue to suffer at the hands of gangs, cartels and violent criminals preying on the innocent. The lives and security of the American people are at stake\u2026 There is no greater physical or economic threat to Americans today than our open border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In light of Judd\u2019s predictable language, it is important to recall that the story of the Mexican-US border dates far back in time and has quite a history unto itself. The NBPC president\u2019s decision to invoke gangs, cartels, and violent criminals, moreover, amounts to little more than a very lazy way of commandeering the polemics that currently inform border narratives. Judd\u2019s language certainly reinforces the credibility of the racist whitewashing of border history that dominates the paradigms of millions of Americans today&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/05\/the-border-that-we-keep\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y est\u00e1bamos pasando el r\u00edo cuando nos fusilaron con los m\u00e1useres. Me devolv\u00ed porque \u00e9l me dijo: \u2018S\u00e1came de aqu\u00ed, paisano, no me dejes.\u2019 \u2014 Juan Rulfo, El llano en llamas On March 30 of this year, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed Donald Trump, effectively backing his bid for the presidency of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}