{"id":6097,"date":"2010-07-14T16:25:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:29:08","slug":"harry-reid-no-illegal-aliens-working-construction-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6097\/harry-reid-no-illegal-aliens-working-construction-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid: No Illegal Aliens Working Construction in Nevada?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada), who foolishly said in 2007 “this war is lost”<\/a> just as the surge was winning in Iraq, just had another one of those “he didn’t really just say that, did he?” moments.<\/p>\n

A local reporter raised the issue of high unemployment in Nevada’s hard-hit construction sector, noting that construction companies often find it easier to hire illegal aliens.\u00a0 To this, Reid bizarrely replied, “any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation.”\u00a0 The reporter then cited a Pew Hispanic Center<\/a> study showing that 17% of construction workers are illegal aliens, to which Reid replied even more absurdly, “that may be someplace, but it’s not here in Nevada.”<\/p>\n

As noted in the following Fox News video<\/a>, however, the Pew Center confirms that Nevada actually suffers the highest<\/em> percentage of unauthorized immigrants<\/a> in the workforce.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that Reid’s son avoids using the family surname<\/a> in his own political race for Nevada governor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada), who foolishly said in 2007 “this war is lost” just as the surge was winning in Iraq, just had another one of those “he didn’t really just say that, did he?” moments. A local reporter raised the issue of high unemployment in Nevada’s hard-hit construction sector, noting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1555,1552,1553,1554,1551,157,38,1556,18],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-aliens","tag-construction","tag-illegal","tag-immigrants","tag-nevada","tag-reid","tag-senate","tag-unemployed","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}