{"id":24479,"date":"2026-05-18T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/former-defense-secretary-us-could-face-cuban-migration-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:58:38","slug":"former-defense-secretary-us-could-face-cuban-migration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/former-defense-secretary-us-could-face-cuban-migration-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Former defense secretary: US could face Cuban migration crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Elsewhere-Cuba_051326_AP_Ramon-Espinosa.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned of a migration crisis to the U.S. from Cuba, comments that follow President Trump recently threatening the island. \u201cDoes it matter to U.S. national security what happens on this island?\u201d CBS News\u2019s Margaret Brennan asked Gates on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cI think that, actually, the biggest risk is, that&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5882550-gates-warns-cuba-migration\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned of a migration crisis to the U.S. from Cuba, comments that follow President Trump recently threatening the island. \u201cDoes it matter to U.S. national security what happens on this island?\u201d CBS News\u2019s Margaret Brennan asked Gates on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cI think that, actually, the biggest risk is, that&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}