{"id":2762,"date":"2008-03-28T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/secure-document-date-set-homeland-security-says-june-1-2009-is-firm-target-date\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:09:53","slug":"secure-document-date-set-homeland-security-says-june-1-2009-is-firm-target-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/secure-document-date-set-homeland-security-says-june-1-2009-is-firm-target-date\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Secure document&#8217; date set; Homeland Security says June 1, 2009 is firm target date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1355\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s official. Travellers entering the United States by land, sea and air will require a passport &#8220;or other secure document&#8221; as identification iorder to be permitted into the Land of the Free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are on course to implement and enforce the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative which is an important step forward in securing the homeland,&#8221; said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. &#8220;Limiting and standardizing the types of documents presented will result in a more secure and efficient border. We will continue to encourage cross-border travel and trade while at the same time decreasing identity theft and fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news to Arlene White, executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is good,&#8221; she said, moments after the Department of Homeland Security sent out the media release announcing the date travellers from Canada, the United States, Mexico and some parts of the Caribbean &#8211; countries that traditionally gave oral declarations or a birth certificate or drivers licence when entering the country &#8211; will need to enter the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It&#8217;s official. Travellers entering the United States by land, sea and air will require a passport &#8220;or other secure document&#8221; as identification iorder to be permitted into the Land of the Free. &#8220;We are on course to implement and enforce the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative which is an important step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","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\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}