{"id":1744,"date":"2007-06-26T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/26\/licences-in-passports-out\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:03:48","slug":"licences-in-passports-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/licences-in-passports-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Licences in, passports out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?812\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of the Department of Homeland Security hinted he might be softening his stance on the requirement to show a passport to enter the U.S., during a visit to the Buffalo side of the Peace Bridge Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chertoff said enhanced driver&#8217;s licences might be an acceptable alternative after all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to work with state authorities to get that underway early next year,&#8221; Chertoff told reporters, after touring the bridge property. &#8220;This is about finding a way forward that is reasonable, but also secure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until now, he has strongly supported the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, announced in 2005, which would have required everyone &#8211; including Americans &#8211; to show a passport to gain entry to the U.S. by 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Chertoff also said he would be willing to work with provincial officials so Canadian driver&#8217;s licences could also be considered as an acceptable form of identification at the American border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The head of the Department of Homeland Security hinted he might be softening his stance on the requirement to show a passport to enter the U.S., during a visit to the Buffalo side of the Peace Bridge Monday. Michael Chertoff said enhanced driver&#8217;s licences might be an acceptable alternative after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}