{"id":18512,"date":"2026-02-01T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/caught-between-ice-enforcement-and-fraud-allegations-child-care-industry-gasps-for-air\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:21:07","slug":"caught-between-ice-enforcement-and-fraud-allegations-child-care-industry-gasps-for-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/caught-between-ice-enforcement-and-fraud-allegations-child-care-industry-gasps-for-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught between ICE enforcement and fraud allegations, child care industry gasps for air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The child care industry is struggling to convince parents that its facilities are safe.  Providers are in a tough spot after months of immigration operations that have included parents taken in by authorities while dropping off or picking up their kids &mdash; as well as fraud allegations that have led to harassment at facilities around the country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5715394-child-care-ice-minnesota-dhs-minneapolis\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The child care industry is struggling to convince parents that its facilities are safe. Providers are in a tough spot after months of immigration operations that have included parents taken in by authorities while dropping off or picking up their kids &mdash; as well as fraud allegations that have led to harassment at facilities around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}