{"id":1003,"date":"2023-06-18T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T00:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:36:53","slug":"worth-checking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/18\/worth-checking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Checking Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For seven months ending 4\/23,                   <br>ten thousand migrants, all were Chinese,            <br>nearly all men, not old, they were young,                   <br>came into our country to party &#8211; and sun(!?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full fiscal year ending 9\/22,   <br>22 hundred Chinese came through.                    <br>That&#8217;s a big jump, in just a few months,            <br>what&#8217;s that about? &#8211; Border Cops have a hunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the &#8216;got aways&#8217;, don&#8217;t know how many,                    <br>if some are a-runnin&#8217; perhaps they&#8217;re not friendly?             <br>Well the Cops at the border have a few clues,                    <br>not easy to tell &#8211; what&#8217;s really true.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s nothing, perhaps something more, &#8211;                    <br>but best to check out, learn more than before.           <br>There&#8217;s too much at risk to take a chance here,                    <br>with unsecured borders, there&#8217;s plenty to fear.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:06162023:                    <br>www.therandompoet.com) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; selected sources include: US customs and border patrol &#8211; www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/nationwide-encounters;   Madeleine Hubbard &#8211; 6\/14\/23 justthenews.com;  Homeland Security Committee press conference &#8211; 6\/14\/23;  Steven Dinan- washington times &#8211; 6\/14, 2023 www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jun\/14\/chinese-may-be-inserting-military-operatives; President Bill Clinton &#8211;  Dangers of Illegal Immigration &#8211; 1995 State of the Union Address &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For seven months ending 4\/23, ten thousand migrants, all were Chinese, nearly all men, not old, they were young, came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/18\/worth-checking-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worth Checking Out?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}