{"id":382999,"date":"2018-10-30T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-migrant-caravans-are-assault-on-us-mike-pence\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:15:34","slug":"presstv-migrant-caravans-are-assault-on-us-mike-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-migrant-caravans-are-assault-on-us-mike-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Migrant caravans are assault on US: Mike Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Vice President Mike Pence has said that the caravans of Central American migrants streaming towards the United States are like an assault on his country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know it&#8217;s never been more clear to Americans about the need for more border security, has it? We all watch the news. We all see this \u2014 another migrant caravan headed north,&#8221; Pence said at a rally in Michigan Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As President Trump made clear, this is nothing short of an assault on our country and we will not allow it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up anti-migrant rhetoric ahead of crucial midterm congressional elections next week, calling the caravan of Central American migrants an &#8220;invasion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new group of migrants\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/29\/578403\/US-Elections-Caravan-Asylum-Seeker-Refugee-Central-America-Guatemala-Mexico-El-Salvador\">has left\u00a0<\/a>El Salvador to join other United States-bound caravans of Central Americans mostly fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and rights activists have said Trump is drawing on xenophobic and racist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/30\/578569\/Migrant-caravans-are-assault-on-US-Mike-Pence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Mike Pence has said that the caravans of Central American migrants streaming towards the United States are like an assault on his country. &#8220;You know it&#8217;s never been more clear to Americans about the need for more border security, has it? We all watch the news. We all see this \u2014 another [&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-382999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}