{"id":219358,"date":"2010-01-22T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74586"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:56:06","slug":"your-near-daily-visa-facepalm-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219358","title":{"rendered":"Your Near-Daily Visa Facepalm Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hosenball reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/declassified\/archive\/2010\/01\/22\/visas-of-u-s-bound-foreigners-are-not-checked-until-after-their-flights-are-airborne.aspx\">no one checks the visas of U.S.-bound air travelers<\/a> until they&#8217;re in the air. On the one hand, checking visas <em>alone<\/em> won&#8217;t necessarily keep a dangerous person out of the country. There wasn&#8217;t a single problem with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s visa before he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. But that misses the forest for the trees: It doesn&#8217;t make sense to have a requirement that no one enter the U.S. without a valid visa if no one checks that visa before arrival in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hosenball reports that no one checks the visas of U.S.-bound air travelers until they&#8217;re in the air. On the one hand, checking visas alone won&#8217;t necessarily keep a dangerous person out of the country. There wasn&#8217;t a single problem with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s visa before he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. But that misses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}