{"id":287255,"date":"2016-12-25T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anti-refugee-feelings-soar-in-us-after-election-report\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:24:56","slug":"anti-refugee-feelings-soar-in-us-after-election-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anti-refugee-feelings-soar-in-us-after-election-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-refugee feelings soar in US after election: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Anti-immigration sentiments have soared in the US following the recent election victory of Donald Trump, who made tightening of borders a main pledge of his campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers in Montana, for instance,\u00a0have submitted about a dozen bill requests in regards to refugees, immigration and terrorism for their next month session, the<em> Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-immigration views in the state have been so strong that authorities only accepted nine refugee families from January to early December.<\/p>\n<p>This is while under an initiative by the administration of President Barack Obama, the states were told to take in as much as 10,000 Syrian refugees this year, a goal that was reportedly achieved in August.<\/p>\n<p>According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the measures\u00a0reflect the heavily racist theme of the November 8 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty widely known that this is going to be a hard year for those of us who are seeking to protect the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/25\/503455\/US-Immigration-Trump-Montana\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-immigration sentiments have soared in the US following the recent election victory of Donald Trump, who made tightening of borders a main pledge of his campaign. State lawmakers in Montana, for instance,\u00a0have submitted about a dozen bill requests in regards to refugees, immigration and terrorism for their next month session, the Associated Press\u00a0reported Sunday. Anti-immigration [&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-287255","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\/287255","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=287255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}