{"id":858303,"date":"2026-09-23T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:24:09","slug":"maine-republican-paul-lepage-says-family-member-shouldnt-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858303\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Republican Paul LePage says family member shouldn\u2019t be deported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"42NAGUDCZBBTBOJRC6ANDMGOIM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A Republican House candidate in Maine who has made the border central to his campaign said this week that his family had become entangled in a deportation case.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"F67V5E74FNCNFGGGURAZB2GUXU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Paul LePage, a former Maine governor and staunch conservative, said Monday that his son\u2019s father-in-law, who he said was in the United States legally, was being deported \u201cbecause he came from a country that\u2019s not the liking to certain people in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican House candidate in Maine who has made the border central to his campaign said this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-858303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}