{"id":2046,"date":"2006-01-04T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T22:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2006-01-04T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T22:57:52","slug":"sex-for-visas-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Sex-for-visas in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Sun newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2006000188,00.html\">British immigration officials have been granting visas to foreign nationals in exchange for sex<\/a>.  (Now updated with a link to the Sun&#8217;s original story &#8211; many thanks TheInkSlinger.)<\/p>\n<p>I find it ironic that a newspaper which proudly advertises its daily topless photograph was the one to break a story about what is effectively a form of prostitution.  My cynical guess is that the Sun was less concerned with the exploitation than with the anti-immigration potential of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Sun newspaper, British immigration officials have been granting visas to foreign nationals in exchange for sex. (Now updated with a link to the Sun&#8217;s original story &#8211; many thanks TheInkSlinger.) I find it ironic that a newspaper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc","category-media-criticism","category-sex-work-porn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}