{"id":35688,"date":"2021-08-22T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghan-evacuees-texas-base-immigration"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","slug":"plan-for-texas-to-host-afghan-evacuees-gets-bipartisan-support-though-experts-are-wary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35688","title":{"rendered":"Plan for Texas to host Afghan evacuees gets bipartisan support though experts are wary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics warn that the base is \u2018not safe\u2019 because of concerns for migrant children held there after crossing the Mexico border<\/p>\n<p>There was bipartisan support in Texas this weekend for housing Afghan evacuees at the million-acre Fort Bliss military base, in El Paso near the Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>But one immigration rights expert warned both that those escaping the Taliban might need to stay at the facility as long as a year, while they are processed for resettlement, and that the base was \u201cnot safe\u201d because of concerns about conditions for migrant children held there after crossing the southern border.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghan-evacuees-texas-base-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics warn that the base is \u2018not safe\u2019 because of concerns for migrant children held there after crossing the Mexico borderThere was bipartisan support in Texas this weekend for housing Afghan evacuees at the million-acre Fort Bliss military base, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1854,61,44,782,1083,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-texas","category-us-immigration","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688\/revisions\/35689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}