{"id":5212,"date":"2011-12-15T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2011-12-15T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:50:06","slug":"smaller-border-crossings-facing-closure-or-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/15\/smaller-border-crossings-facing-closure-or-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller border crossings facing closure or consolidation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my more interesting weekend get-aways was a 2010 trip to Derby, Vermont, which famously has the US\/Canada border line running smack through town. In conversation there, one gathers residents agree life was much better in the good old days, when border security did not force street closures and official check-ins, just to go see a neighbor. These small casualties of inconvenience are invisible to the US or Canada as a whole. But within affected border towns and communities, citizens are paying a real price for security changes.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I wanted to pass along an article from the CBC about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2011\/12\/14\/small-border-crossings-canada-us.html\">possible changes to smaller border crossings<\/a>. Citing a leaked document from &#8220;the bi-national Small Port Working Group&#8221; the article details possible changes for small border crossings from B.C. to New Brunswick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The document discusses four options being considered by officials with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for each of the 52 land crossings. The options are sharing facilities, mirroring working hours, using a &#8220;remote-technology solution,&#8221; or closing the posts altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where leaked internal documents are concerned, who knows what the real state of negotiations or policies may be? However, if there is\u00a0 a way for affected communities to ask questions and have input, doing that ASAP may be a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my more interesting weekend get-aways was a 2010 trip to Derby, Vermont, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6596,880,6595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}