{"id":3469,"date":"2011-01-03T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2011-01-05T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:03:54","slug":"burlington-native-assumes-top-border-patrol-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/03\/burlington-native-assumes-top-border-patrol-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington native assumes top border patrol post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3472\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/03\/burlington-native-assumes-top-border-patrol-post\/bilde-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3472\" title=\"bilde\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/01\/bilde1-106x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/01\/bilde1-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/01\/bilde1.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>The northern border from Ogdensburg east through Vermont and New Hampshire doesn&#8217;t disappoint for excitement (and controversy) these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/13320\/report-ties-organized-crime-drugs-to-akwesasne-tobacco-trafficking\">Cigarette smuggling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/5613\/questions-over-border-stops-inside-the-border\">roadside patrols<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129888751\">train and bus citizenship checks<\/a>, and a new Congressional push to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/APf1918acc17354c56ac0e7683d4ba9ae4.html\">increase counternarcotics operations <\/a>are all near-daily news here.<\/p>\n<p>Burlington native John Pfeifer is charged to take on all these duties.  He&#8217;s assumed the job of patrol chief for the U.S. Border Patrol&#8217;s Swanton sector.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20101225\/NEWS02\/101224009\/Agent-returns-to-command-Border-Patrol-Sector\">The Burlington Free Press offers a profile here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The northern border from Ogdensburg east through Vermont and New Hampshire doesn&#8217;t disappoint for excitement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4884,59,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}