{"id":520,"date":"2013-03-08T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/08\/tweet-about-it-and-not-tell-the-feds"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:47:00","slug":"tweet-about-it-and-not-tell-the-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Tweet about it, and not tell the feds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A letter to the editor in today&#8217;s Dallas Morning News asks a pertinent question of Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who declared there to be an enormous inflow of illegal immigrants streaming across the border onto land owned by a friend of his.<\/p>\n<p>The letter writer asks why, if it&#8217;s such a huge national security breach, didn&#8217;t the senator notify the feds immediately instead of posting it on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn says his pal &#8212; who he declines to identify &#8212; is watching 300 illegal immigrants come onto his land daily. Local police officials say it isn&#8217;t happening. Who&#8217;s telling the truth?<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that if really was occurring along the Rio Grande River, Cornyn &#8212; himself a former trial judge, state Supreme Court justice and Texas attorney general &#8212; would have fallen back on his judicial instincts and called the Justice Department right away.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what dedicated public servants do?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter to the editor in today&#8217;s Dallas Morning News asks a pertinent question of Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who declared there to be an enormous inflow of illegal immigrants streaming across the border onto land owned by a friend of his. The letter writer asks why, if it&#8217;s such a huge national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tweet about it, and not tell the feds?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}