{"id":36207,"date":"2017-01-28T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=36207"},"modified":"2017-01-28T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T02:03:14","slug":"36207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/36207\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes History Should Rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the immigration record of my great-grandmother, entering Ellis Island from Italy in 1935.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/36207\/ellis-island\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36208\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ellis-Island-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They asked her if she was a polygamist or an anarchist or whether she supported the violent overthrow of the US government.<\/p>\n<p>She said no (red box). And so they let her in&#8211;despite the violence of the Italian Mafia and the terrorism Italian anarchists were committing in the US&#8211;along with her two young daughters, reuniting them with her husband and thus preventing them from possibly becoming three of the 150,000+ Italian civilians who died during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>I am heartbroken today that we are not doing the same thing for this generation&#8217;s mothers and children who are trying to escape war and reunite with their families.<\/p>\n<p>I am heartbroken as an American who has benefited from our previous willingness to welcome\u00a0immigrants, but I am more deeply bothered as a believer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/lev\/19.34?lang=eng#33\">Bible<\/a>\u00a0and a follower of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/matt\/25.41,42,43,44,45,46?lang=eng#40\">Jesus<\/a> and a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865643265\/LDS-Church-releases-statement-on-religious-freedom-as-Donald-Trumps-Muslim-controversy-swirls.html\">LDS Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the immigration record of my great-grandmother, entering Ellis Island from Italy in 1935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ellis-Island.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36211,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions\/36211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}