{"id":119047,"date":"2018-11-26T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=119047"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:07:20","slug":"former-migration-director-says-entry-authorized-to-willie-falcon-violates-the-law-visa-free-travel-with-el-salvador-criticized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/26\/former-migration-director-says-entry-authorized-to-willie-falcon-violates-the-law-visa-free-travel-with-el-salvador-criticized\/","title":{"rendered":"Former migration director says entry authorized to Willie Falcon violates the law; visa free travel with El Salvador criticized"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_119067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119067\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jose-Ricardo-Taveras-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Ricardo Taveras \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Migration Director Jos\u00e9 Ricardo Taveras says that Art. 15 of the Migration Law 285-04 reads that foreigners with criminal records are banned from legal entry to the country. He made the comment when interviewed by H\u00e9ctor Herrera Cabral for D\u00b4Agenda on Channel 11 on Sunday, 25 November 2018. He was referring to the government authorization for Cuban drug capo Willie Falcon to be authorized to \u201ctransitory residence\u201d in the country. The presence of Falcon was known after media in Miami published the news two weeks after he had arrived on 6 November together with Dominicans deported for having committed crimes in the United States. He said that Falcon managed the cocaine cartel in Miami at a time when that city suffered from peak levels of crime.<\/p>\n<p>Taveras said the case of Willie Falc\u00f3n, cannot be compared to that transitory residence authorized to members of the Spanish ETA group.<\/p>\n<p>The admitting of Willie Falcon has been highly criticized in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Espinosa, president of the Interior &amp; Police Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, last week also criticized the Ministry of Foreign Relations negotiating visa free entry for persons from El Salvador. &#8220;The Dominican Republic has become a waste disposal site,\u201d he said. He criticized orders for Congress to approve the visa free entry with El Salvador. \u201cThe initiative was not allowed to be examined by the security agencies, instead a \u201cmachete\u201d order was lowered for its approval,\u201d he complained. \u201cWhen the Salvadorans gangs get going here, then there will be protests,\u201d the legislator said in a tone of complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/exdirector-migracion-dice-ley-impide-entrada-personas-con-antecedentes-penales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Nacional<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/ven-convierten-a-rd-en-deposito-de-desechos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Nacional<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/11\/22\/542731\/dni-actuo-en-caso-de-seis-etarras-en-1998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/11\/22\/542724\/gobierno-informa-falcon-esta-bajo-custodia-del-dni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/noticiero-poteleche\/imagen-img_6554-jpg-HD11472041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/11\/22\/542732\/los-reyes-del-trafico-de-drogas-en-el-pais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/11\/22\/542728\/cocaine-cowboys-sangre-balas-y-drogas-en-la-miami-paradisiaca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>26 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Migration Director Jos\u00e9 Ricardo Taveras says that Art. 15 of the Migration Law 285-04 reads that foreigners with criminal records are banned from legal entry to the country. He made the comment when interviewed by H\u00e9ctor Herrera Cabral for D\u00b4Agenda on Channel 11 on Sunday, 25 November 2018. He was referring to the government &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/26\/former-migration-director-says-entry-authorized-to-willie-falcon-violates-the-law-visa-free-travel-with-el-salvador-criticized\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}