{"id":838579,"date":"2025-04-02T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/santa-cruz-mayor-trump-absolutely-should-get-credit-for-declining-border-encounters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:13:28","slug":"santa-cruz-mayor-trump-absolutely-should-get-credit-for-declining-border-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/santa-cruz-mayor-trump-absolutely-should-get-credit-for-declining-border-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Mayor: Trump &#8216;Absolutely&#8217; Should Get Credit for Declining Border Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill,\u201d Santa Cruz, CA Mayor Fred Keeley said that he \u201cAbsolutely\u201d gives President Donald Trump credit for the decline in encounters at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Host Blake Burman asked, \u201cWhat about President Trump at the border, do you give him credit for southwest border encounters dropping drastically, down to 8,300 in February?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keeley answered, \u201cAbsolutely. Absolutely. We don\u2019t have a \u2014 the federal government is in charge of the border. It\u2019s not the city of Santa Cruz. They want to secure the borders, that\u2019s their business. In the city of Santa Cruz, we\u2019ll set our priorities. The federal government can set theirs. Where they align, great. Where they don\u2019t, we\u2019re following ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2025\/03\/05\/santa-cruz-mayor-trump-absolutely-should-get-credit-for-declining-border-encounters\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill,\u201d Santa Cruz, CA Mayor Fred Keeley said that he \u201cAbsolutely\u201d gives President Donald Trump credit for the decline in encounters at the southern border. Host Blake Burman asked, \u201cWhat about President Trump at the border, do you give him credit for southwest border encounters dropping drastically, down to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24761,25255],"tags":[6030,13690],"class_list":{"0":"post-838579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mayor","8":"category-santa","9":"tag-mayor","10":"tag-santa"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}