{"id":18859,"date":"2017-02-07T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2017-02-04T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T16:10:56","slug":"biometric-screening-would-be-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/biometric-screening-would-be-a-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric screening would be a &#8216;disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/02\/04\/biometric-screening-would-be-a-disaster\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump\u2019s push to have all visitors entering and exiting the United States subjected to biometric screening &#8211; such as finger-printing, retina scans or facial recognition tests \u2013 would be a \u201cdisaster,\u201d says the general manager of the Peace Bridge Authority.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that there hasn\u2019t been enough thought or process into what are the consequences of such an action,\u201d said Ron Rienas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it can be done where there is no adverse impact on traffic in any way, in terms of taking much longer and slowing things down, then that\u2019s one thing. But all the experts and all the evidence that we\u2019ve seen points to this being a disaster because it would require a much longer primary inspection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s call for stepped-up technology to monitor whether non-Americans are staying in the country longer than permitted, was part of a recent executive order he issued on immigration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: President Donald Trump\u2019s push to have all visitors entering and exiting the United States subjected to biometric screening &#8211; such as finger-printing, retina scans or facial recognition tests \u2013 would be a \u201cdisaster,\u201d says the general manager of the Peace Bridge Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[382,54,2,601,39,52],"tags":[11837,11346,1139,8833,3817,10611],"class_list":["post-18859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-travel","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-biometric","tag-donald-trump","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-peace-bridge-authority","tag-ron-rienas","tag-technology"],"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\/18859","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18860,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}