{"id":415253,"date":"2015-11-05T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=415253"},"modified":"2015-11-06T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:05:38","slug":"all-for-a-crack-down-on-sanctuary-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=415253","title":{"rendered":"Call for a Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/JoAnn-Fleming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/JoAnn-Fleming-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JoAnn Fleming\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-415254\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Governor Abbott is taking more steps to crack down on sanctuary cities, but tea party groups say he needs to get even tougher. JoAnn Fleming of Smith County-based Grassroots America &#8211; We the People praised Abbott for stripping state criminal justice money  from counties that don&#8217;t turn over criminal immigrants to the feds. But she says the governor has the authority to eliminate sanctuary cities today. According to Fleming, Abbott can &#8220;immediately issue an  executive order that takes care of cities and counties.&#8221;  She adds that  a special session of the Legislature should be called. Fleming says sanctuary cities are a public safety emergency that requires action now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Governor Abbott is taking more steps to crack down on sanctuary cities, but tea party groups say he needs to get even tougher. JoAnn Fleming of Smith County-based Grassroots America &#8211; We the People praised Abbott for stripping state criminal justice money from counties that don&#8217;t turn over criminal immigrants to the feds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=415253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call for a Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":415254,"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-415253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:59:52","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\/415253","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=415253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415469,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415253\/revisions\/415469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/415254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}