{"id":1385526,"date":"2019-01-22T23:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=963751"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:13:02","slug":"letter-wall-ensures-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-wall-ensures-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Wall ensures quality of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The Los Angeles school teachers are on strike for more money and less work. Their district served 734,000 kids in 2016-&#8217;17. The teachers union touted the fact that the graduation rate had increased from 62 percent to 80 percent. This &#8220;accomplishment&#8221; means the district turns out over 146,000 dropouts every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">These generally poor, mostly minority dropouts may be the ones hurt most by illegal immigration. I believe it&#8217;s their jobs illegal aliens steal by working cheap. The Latino community might tell you they don&#8217;t want any more illegal workers to compete with. Everyone benefits from border security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s calling a wall &#8220;immoral&#8221; is a betrayal of our security and quality of life. Probably only naive idealists believe in open borders. As Earth&#8217;s population explosion continues, controlling those borders may ensure our children&#8217;s quality of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Bruno Kirchenwitz<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>Rifle<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-wall-ensures-quality-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles school teachers are on strike for more money and less work. Their district served 734,000 kids in 2016-&#8217;17. The teachers union touted the fact that the graduation rate had increased from 62 percent to 80 percent. This &#8220;accomplishment&#8221; means the district turns out over 146,000 dropouts every year. These generally poor, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 13:42:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}