Traveling Americans will face tighter border controls

Mr. Pessimistic

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday.

Similarly, Canadians will also have to present a passport to enter the United States, the officials said.

American Borders

So not only are illegal immigrants allowed to enter the country, now Americans are finding it harder to get into America?

I know...I am being facetious!!

I do find it interesting that this is an issue, yet illegals are not so much.

hmm

Mr. P.

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Loricat · Graduate Student Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 446 Gender:

Oh, I've been at the border a few times in the last couple of years, and it annoys me that I have to show my passport. "What's the point of Free Trade!" yadda, yadda, yadda...

Then, I think, it only makes sense. We share the longest undefended border in the world...Canadian border guards need to be a bit more suspicious as well. The stereotype of the friendly Canadian border guard, reading a newspaper and smiling as s/he says "Welcome to Canada!" is not very far from the truth. Just toodle across the border at Niagara Falls some day -- pistol-packing, buzzing through gates on one side of the pedestrian bridge, smiles and coffee cups on the other.

Lori

"All beings are the owners of their deeds, the heirs to their deeds."

pctacitus · Senior Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 354 Gender:

In late 1999 the Al-Qaeda guy who was going to set off explosives in America was caught coming through Canada by the US Customs Service, they only caught him because his nervousness was thought to be a sign he was carrying drugs not explosives.

…[T]o ignore the classics is ultimately to weaken the very foundations of our society. - James Atlas, Book Wars: What it Takes to be Educated in America


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