{"id":15970,"date":"2024-09-10T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2024-09-10T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:59:23","slug":"migrant-controversy-hits-heartland-as-alabama-council-meeting-boils-over-state-officials-slam-feds-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=15970","title":{"rendered":"Migrant controversy hits heartland as Alabama council meeting boils over, state officials slam feds&#8217; &#8216;mess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>State Rep Benjamin Robbins, who represents the city, demands federal response from Mayorkas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Residents of a small Alabama city were up in arms at the migrant influx during a recent city council hearing that lawmakers suddenly cut short amid the outcry.<\/span><p class=\"speakable\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Meanwhile, state leaders demanded answers from the feds as the migrants appear to be in the country legally under Temporary Protective Status provisions extended to Haitian nationals by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space-collapse: collapse;\">In Sylacauga, just south of NASCAR\u2019s Talladega Superspeedway, City Council President Tiffany Nix abruptly curtailed public comment as residents demanded accountability for the at least 50 migrants that appeared in the city.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/migrant-controversy-hits-heartland-alabama-council-meeting-boils-over-state-officials-slam-feds-mess\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Migrant controversy hits heartland as Alabama council meeting boils over, state officials slam feds\u2019 \u2018mess\u2019\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Alabama_Welcome_I20W.png\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Migrant controversy hits heartland as Alabama council meeting boils over, state officials slam feds\u2019 \u2018mess\u2019<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Sylacauga, Alabama, residents fume at officials over an influx of Haitian migrants legally in their town under Temporary Protective Status as state lawmakers seek action.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep Benjamin Robbins, who represents the city, demands federal response from Mayorkas Residents of a small Alabama city were up in arms at the migrant influx during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-globalists","category-invasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15972,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions\/15972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}