{"id":1570,"date":"2013-11-29T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-11-29T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:05:35","slug":"disabled-woman-denied-entry-to-u-s-after-agent-cites-supposedly-private-medical-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites supposedly private medical details"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get \u201cmedical clearance\u2019\u2019 and be examined by one of only three doctors in Toronto whose assessments are accepted by Homeland Security. She was given their names and told a call to her psychiatrist \u201cwould not suffice.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Richardson said, she was so shocked and devastated by what was going on, she wasn\u2019t thinking about how U.S. authorities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/canadians-with-mental-illnesses-denied-u-s-entry-1.1034903\" target=\"_blank\">could access her supposedly private medical information<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/11\/28\/disabled_woman_denied_entry_to_us_after_agent_cites_supposedly_private_medical_details.html\">Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites supposedly private medical details | Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/m\/touch\/canada\/story\/1.1034903\">Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Data entered into national police database accessible to American authorities: WikiLeaks<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get \u201cmedical clearance\u2019\u2019 and be examined by one of only three doctors in Toronto whose assessments are accepted by Homeland Security. She was given their names and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-security-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}