{"id":88921,"date":"2026-05-09T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88921"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:06:02","slug":"belgians-propose-sea-barrier-to-halt-people-smugglers-taxi-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/09\/belgians-propose-sea-barrier-to-halt-people-smugglers-taxi-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgians propose sea barrier to halt people smugglers\u2019 \u2018taxi boats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22LpNa.img?w=534&amp;h=335&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Chains of buoys across the Rio Grande to prevent illegal migrants from crossing from Mexico - Zuma Press\/eyevine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barriers should be constructed in the sea off Belgium to stop people smugglers\u2019 \u201ctaxi boats\u201d reaching France to pick up\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/migrant-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Channel migrants<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/belgians-propose-sea-barrier-to-halt-people-smugglers-taxi-boats\/ar-AA22LHJL?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=1c47b5f360784d04eced91190219b4bf&amp;ei=9\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Barriers should be constructed in the sea off Belgium to stop people smugglers\u2019 \u201ctaxi boats\u201d reaching France to pick up\u00a0Channel migrants, Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chains-of-buoys.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88923,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88921\/revisions\/88923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}