{"id":571934,"date":"2023-01-25T02:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=571934"},"modified":"2023-02-04T02:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T02:45:19","slug":"california-massacres-heighten-immigrants-fears-of-u-s-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/california-massacres-heighten-immigrants-fears-of-u-s-gun-violence","title":{"rendered":"California massacres heighten immigrants&#8217; fears of U.S. gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALF MOON BAY\/MONTEREY PARK, California, Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; America was supposed to be a place of safety for Jose Romero when he arrived some two years ago to work on a California farm alongside other immigrants from Mexico and China. Romero was killed on Monday, shot dead by a gunman along with six other farm workers in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco. Even in a nation all too familiar with gun violence, the shooting was stunning, coming just two days after another gunman opened fire at a ballroom in Monterey Park, an Asian American enclave outside Los Angeles. In all, 18 people died in the back-to-back shootings, rattling two close-knit communities that had drawn immigrants seeking opportunities. &#8220;You look to improve your life and then you end up with this,&#8221; said Romero&#8217;s cousin, Jose Juarez, quiet and sullen on Tuesday as he took a break from cooking at a Mexican taqueria in a Half Moon Bay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALF MOON BAY\/MONTEREY PARK, California, Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; America was supposed to be a place of safety for Jose Romero when he arrived some two years ago to work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}