{"id":154601,"date":"2021-03-09T06:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=154601"},"modified":"2021-03-09T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:55:43","slug":"its-a-fence-not-a-wall-says-migration-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/its-a-fence-not-a-wall-says-migration-director\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a fence, not a wall, says Migration director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Verja-perimetral-de-la-Frontera-Listin-Diario-e1615294532969.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154657\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Migration Agency (DGM) director stressed the Abinader administration is holding talks for the construction of a security fence on the border, not a &#8220;wall.&#8221; The Dominican government is in conversations with suppliers from Spain and Israeli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Migration director Enrique Garcia Vargas made the remark when visiting vulnerable crossing points on the border. &#8220;It is not a simple border security fence, it is a whole project, which contemplates technological advances including facial recognition, fingerprints, infrared cameras, equipment for the military and other security,&#8221; Garc\u00eda Vargas emphasized during a tour of the northern border of Dajab\u00f3n and southern Jiman\u00ed and Pedernales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Abinader announced the border fence in his 27 February annual speech. He spoke of new measures being taken to reinforce security along the dividing line between both countries. A dual perimeter fence is considered for the most conflictive stretches and a single fence for the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/03\/08\/660188\/no-se-construira-un-muro-en-la-frontera-sino-verja-perimetral-dice-director-migracion\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 March 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Migration Agency (DGM) director stressed the Abinader administration is holding talks for the construction of a security fence on the border, not a &#8220;wall.&#8221; The Dominican government is in conversations with suppliers from Spain and Israeli. Migration director Enrique Garcia Vargas made the remark when visiting vulnerable crossing points on the border. &#8220;It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/its-a-fence-not-a-wall-says-migration-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601"}],"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=154601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154658,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601\/revisions\/154658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}