{"id":118562,"date":"2011-08-22T12:49:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118562"},"modified":"2011-08-23T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:10:53","slug":"berman-weighs-in-on-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118562","title":{"rendered":"Berman Weighs In on Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=118565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/thumb_leo-berman-2-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_leo-berman-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-118565\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Republican State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler responds to President Obama&#8217;s call for halting deportation of &#8220;low-risk&#8221; illegals.   Berman says, &#8220;We have 25,000 in our jails, and we&#8217;ve got to do something about it quickly, because they&#8217;re costing us hundreds of millions of dollars just in Texas alone.&#8221;    He says illegal immigrants are &#8220;using false ID cards like Social Security cards and driver&#8217;s licenses to get Texas state benefits.&#8221;  Berman cites food stamps and Aid to Dependent Children.  He says there are 2 million illegal aliens in Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Republican State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler responds to President Obama&#8217;s call for halting deportation of &#8220;low-risk&#8221; illegals. Berman says, &#8220;We have 25,000 in our jails, and we&#8217;ve got to do something about it quickly, because they&#8217;re costing us hundreds of millions of dollars just in Texas alone.&#8221; He says illegal immigrants are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berman Weighs In on Immigration Reform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 03:00:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118562"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118938,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118562\/revisions\/118938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}