Comments on: U.S. To Tighten Border Controls in 2008

By: Diggers Realm

Diggers Realm — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:17:22 +0000

In 2008 You'll Have To Show Your Passport To Re-enter U.S. From Canada And Mexico
Wow, it's only taken them forever to require you to have to actually show some sort of requirement to get back into the U.S. When I used to live in Rochester, New York we could go to Niagara Falls and...

By: LJD

LJD — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:26:20 +0000

Sure more bureaucracy (in about three years). That's worked well for us in the past.

I think what they're doing in Arizona is great- and it's working. Sure, the illegals are just bypasing to the East and West, but what if our entire border was secured in such a way?

By: Our Life

Our Life — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:44:17 +0000

Round the Reader: Wednesday, 6 April 2005
Here is the FIGMO edition of Round the Reader for Wednesday, 6 April 2005: Iraq Prepares to Name Kurd New President. Scott Boone laughs in the face of naysayers (aka liberal morons). U.S. to Tighten Border Controls by 2008: Proof...

By: Daily Pundit

Daily Pundit — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:19:47 +0000

Why Should It Be Harder For You To Enter Your Own Country Than Some Guy From Guadalajara?
U.S. to Tighten Border Controls by 2008WASHINGTON (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,...

By: Daily Pundit

Daily Pundit — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:14:13 +0000

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:50:32 +0000

I've never had to show a license or other ID to go to and from Canada, even since 9/11, and it hasn't been especially more tedious since then at the locations I have used.

The most stringent questioning I ever got was when my Sentra was new (to me), probably about 1995 or 1996, because it had such a fresh paint job after being repaired from a total for sale to me. Apparently there had been issues with people taking hot cars between the countries, or some such (this was going back into the US from Quebec to Vermont).

I'm annoyed that I will have to get a passport for the few times a year I go to Canada. My father will love it too. He lives a couple miles from the border and averages probably weekly jaunts there.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:43:19 +0000

From the usenet travel newsgroups reports, the US immigration agents at the border posts have required proof of residency since 9/11, which means either a passport or a birth certificate or green card. A driver's license is no longer valid for that crossing. What this action really begs is some kind of national ID which can substitute for the passport. The passport application process is cumbersome and expensive, and most Americans don't really want or need one.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:51:25 +0000

Hopefully, dw, the government will set up different lanes for those entering the country. If you have an American passport, you use one set of lanes. Those with questionable "papers" that need closer scrutiny would use other lanes with border guards who are fully trained to recognize forgeries.

By: dw

dw — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:46:39 +0000

As someone who lives next to the Canadian border, I wonder why requiring Americans to have passports is all that justified. I can think of one reason (no national ID card), but even then it seems pointless and useless.

I can't decide if this is pointless or part of some move towards a Communist attitude towards travel -- that you must at the least show positive ID to leave your house, at the most have a valid, government approved reason to be out of your house or town.

We're a long, long, long way away from that... but it's still kinda scary.