{"id":575,"date":"2014-12-02T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:00:38","slug":"will-obamas-immigration-action-affect-food-service-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/will-obamas-immigration-action-affect-food-service-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How will Obama&#8217;s immigration action affect the Food Service Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With President Obama&#8217;s recent executive order on immigration policy, approximately 5 million illegal immigrants are protected from deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal immigrants allowed to stay must have been in the country more than 5 years, pay taxes, and pass a criminal background check.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant industry will be impacted by immigration reform as it employs 1.4 million &#8220;foreign-borns,&#8221; both legal and illegal. It is estimated that 20% of cooks and 28% of dishwashers are illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant organizations are still concerned that Obama&#8217;s plan may have a negative impact on lasting reform, though the president acknowledges a permanent legislative solution needs to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a title=\"Restaurant organizations apprehensive about Obama's executive action on immigration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcasual.com\/articles\/restaurant-organizations-apprehensive-about-obamas-executive-action-on-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Restaurant organizations apprehensive about Obama&#8217;s executive action on immigration<\/a><br \/>\n[sc:mbta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With President Obama&#8217;s recent executive order on immigration policy, approximately 5 million illegal immigrants are protected from deportation. The illegal immigrants allowed to stay must have been in the country more than 5 years, pay taxes, and pass a criminal background check. The restaurant industry will be impacted by immigration reform as it employs 1.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}