{"id":16365,"date":"2012-12-17T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:45:12","slug":"cartoon-immigration-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16365","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Immigration and Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leftycartoons.com\/immigration-and-jobs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/immigration-alamar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"immigration-alamar\" width=\"595\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/immigration-alamar1.jpg 595w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/immigration-alamar1-550x532.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spoiler]PANEL 1<br \/>\nIllustration shows Alamar, a dark-skinned man wearing overalls and a hardhat, standing behind a partly built brick wall holding a brick in one hand and a trowel in the other.<br \/>\nCAPTION: Alamar came to the United States to find work. Alamar is a brick mason. He works hard and is very productive.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 2<br \/>\nIllustration shows Alamar continuing to work on the wall, while a woman nearby wearing a hardhat checks something off on her clipboard. Behind Alamar, a man walks up carrying a box. Behind that man, a large truck has pulled up.<br \/>\nCAPTION: Because Alamar is so productive, people in related jobs, like brickmakers, site supervisors, and truckers, have more work to do.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 3<br \/>\nIllustration shows Alamar, no longer wearing a hardhat, buying groceries from a cashier.<br \/>\nCAPTION: All those people, including Alamar, spend money in the local economy, on things like groceries and movies and diners and gas and clothes. All that spending creates more jobs.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 4<br \/>\nIllustration shows Alamar back at work on the wall. Next to him, an angry bald man is yelling.<br \/>\nCAPTION: That&#8217;s why Americans welcome Alamar with friendship and open arms.<br \/>\nANGRY BALD MAN: GO HOME, YOU *@%#! JOB-STEALER![\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spoiler]PANEL 1 Illustration shows Alamar, a dark-skinned man wearing overalls and a hardhat, standing behind a partly built brick wall holding a brick in one hand and a trowel in the other. CAPTION: Alamar came to the United States to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16370,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}