{"id":229756,"date":"2026-02-04T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/spains-choice-on-migrants-pragmatic-but-data-needs-securing-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:17:42","slug":"spains-choice-on-migrants-pragmatic-but-data-needs-securing-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/spains-choice-on-migrants-pragmatic-but-data-needs-securing-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&rsquo;s choice on migrants &lsquo;pragmatic&rsquo; but data needs securing, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Speaking with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sharon Gaffney, Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the University of Birmingham, explains that Spain&rsquo;s decision to regularise more than half a million illegal migrants is a &lsquo;pragmatic choice&rsquo; but stresses that the registering process should be secured to avoid the &lsquo;weaponisation&rsquo; seen in the US, where DACA data was used against migrants once Trump came to power.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sharon Gaffney, Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the University of Birmingham, explains that Spain&rsquo;s decision to regularise more than half a million illegal migrants is a &lsquo;pragmatic choice&rsquo; but stresses that the registering process should be secured to avoid the &lsquo;weaponisation&rsquo; seen in the US, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-229756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}