{"id":179352,"date":"2025-09-27T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179352"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:30:50","slug":"scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179352","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scapegoating of migrants\u2019? Filipino detained in US over past infraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States immigration officers have detained and are mulling over the deportation of a Filipino green card holder over an old drug charge for which he was already sentenced, amid a worrying trend of American immigrants targeted for the slightest infractions.<br \/>\nSonny Lasquite was returning home from a holiday in the Bahamas on July 28 when US Customs and Border Protection detained him at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3321918\/filipino-green-card-holders-detention-us-sparks-concerns-about-scapegoating-migrants?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States immigration officers have detained and are mulling over the deportation of a Filipino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179352-scapegoating-of-migrants-filipino-detained-in-us-over-past-infraction-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}