{"id":1761,"date":"2007-06-29T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/us-wavers-on-passport-plan\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:46:12","slug":"us-wavers-on-passport-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/us-wavers-on-passport-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. wavers on passport plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?821\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A plan to require anyone crossing the border into the United States from Canada to have a passport could be revamped to explore enhanced drivers&#8217; licences, says the head of U.S. Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chertoff, secretary of the agency pushing for the passport requirement as a means to beef up border security, said in a visit to Buffalo Monday he might be ready to look at high-tech licences instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A plan to require anyone crossing the border into the United States from Canada to have a passport could be revamped to explore enhanced drivers&#8217; licences, says the head of U.S. Homeland Security. Michael Chertoff, secretary of the agency pushing for the passport requirement as a means to beef up border&#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-1761","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\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}