{"id":178,"date":"2006-02-09T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2006-02-09T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T00:06:50","slug":"be-a-border-patrol-officer-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/be-a-border-patrol-officer-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Border Patrol officer (in Oklahoma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you heard right, the Border Patrol is running ads on local radio for officers&#8230;&#8230;  I thought, well, they must be for use in Texas where the Mexican border is, although, I feel it had moved into Oklahoma years ago (see my post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=77\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>I don&#8217;t want to live in Mexico<\/strong><\/a> )&#8230;&#8230;.   The same night after I first heard the Border Patrol ad on the radio, I saw an interview on TV where a group of Mexicans were protesting on the Oklahoma capitol steps about the ads&#8230;&#8230;.  The reporter interviewed the Border Patrol representative first and asked the question of why they were recruiting officers in Oklahoma since the border was in Texas&#8230;&#8230;  He stated that although we do not officially have a border in Oklahoma, we have a serious situation with illegal aliens&#8230;&#8230;.  As reported by the state of Oklahoma to the Feds, Oklahoma has over 160,000 illegal aliens enrolled in the public school system, and over 500,000 <strong>confirmed<\/strong> illegal aliens among the work force in the state&#8230;&#8230;  The reporter, who obviously wanted to dispute this, turned to one of the protesters and asked what he thought of these figures, the man backed away without saying a word, so the reporter then asked if any of the protesters spoke English&#8230;&#8230;  One person came forward as most of the crowd quietly disappeared&#8230;&#8230;  He stated that these figures could not possibly be that high and the Border Patrol was just trying to single out and profile the Spanish-American population in Oklahoma&#8230;&#8230;  The representative stated that these figures were filed directly by the state of Oklahoma to the Federal Government, if they are not correct, then there is a problem of erroneous reporting&#8230;&#8230;  So-o-o, in either case, Oklahoma has a serious situation concerning illegal aliens which needs to be resolved&#8230;&#8230;.  The man and the reporter basically shut-up&#8230;&#8230;  Do I need to add that this story did not appear again on the news?&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I am seriously considering offering my services to the Border Patrol&#8230;&#8230;.  Agent MRambler&#8230;&#8230;.  Has a nice ring to it, don&#8217;t ya think?&#8230;&#8230;..  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you heard right, the Border Patrol is running ads on local radio for officers&#8230;&#8230; I thought, well, they must be for use in Texas where the Mexican border is, although, I feel it had moved into Oklahoma years ago (see my post I don&#8217;t want to live in Mexico )&#8230;&#8230;. The same night after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,27,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}