{"id":10554,"date":"2011-07-27T10:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2011-07-27T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:59:57","slug":"mccartney-pandering-to-fears-over-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/mccartney-pandering-to-fears-over-illegal-immigration","title":{"rendered":"McCartney &#8216;Pandering&#8217; to Xenophobic Fears Over Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branville McCartney is &#8220;pandering&#8221; to xenophobic fears over illegal immigration in an effort to gain the support of the country&#8217;s voter base, said former Cabinet Minister George Smith.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after Mr McCartney said that he will fight to change the country&#8217;s constitution so that children born here to illegal immigrants will not be eligible for Bahamian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McCartney, leader of newly formed third party the Democratic National Alliance, said he will advance a referendum on the issue if he is elected as the country&#8217;s next prime minister, according to a local daily.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current constitution, persons who are born in the Bahamas to illegal immigrants have the right to apply for citizenship between their 18th and 19th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branville McCartney is &#8220;pandering&#8221; to xenophobic fears over illegal immigration in an effort to gain the support of the country&#8217;s voter base, said former Cabinet Minister George Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41,168],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-immigration","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}