{"id":33173,"date":"2025-07-18T03:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-barrier-built-at-mexico-border\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:46:45","slug":"new-barrier-built-at-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-barrier-built-at-mexico-border\/","title":{"rendered":"New barrier built at Mexico border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The US has started building a new &#8216;secondary&#8217; wall at its southwestern border with Mexico to reinforce an existing steel fence that divides the two countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The approximately 7 mile (11km) wall is being constructed in the state of New Mexico and is part of a plan to close &#8216;critical&#8217; gaps in the border and improve security operations, according to a statement published by the US Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In June, the US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued new waivers for the construction of approximately 36 miles (58km) of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c784g1pjmkgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has started building a new &#8216;secondary&#8217; wall at its southwestern border with Mexico to reinforce an existing steel fence that divides the two countries. The approximately 7 mile (11km) wall is being constructed in the state of New Mexico and is part of a plan to close &#8216;critical&#8217; gaps in the border and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33175,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173\/revisions\/33175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}