{"id":4885,"date":"2022-11-16T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/?post_type=episodes&#038;p=4885"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:02:53","slug":"the-broken-immigration-system","status":"publish","type":"episodes","link":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/episodes\/the-broken-immigration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Immigration System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to quantify the costs and benefits of undocumented immigrants\u2019 burden on communities and the country \u2014 burdens on education, crime, and healthcare. But rarely do conversations include the price of border security and political capital expended on enforcing and debating the issue which wind up costing our country time and money in unexpected ways. This episode will explore the both sides of the equation &#8211; revealing unseen benefits and detractors of undocumented immigrants and the opportunity that a better system promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reveal the often unseen benefits and detractors of undocumented immigrants and the opportunity that a better system promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4886,"menu_order":15,"template":"","episode_type":[26],"class_list":["post-4885","episodes","type-episodes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","episode_type-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episodes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"episode_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalmiddle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode_type?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}