On Mon, 09 May 2005 22:27:56 -0700, miles
wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>
>> They haven't needed a passport in the past. In fact I lived in
>> Canada for a year as a landed immigrant and easily passed back
>> and forth into the USA without a passport. But that was in
>> 1965-66.
>
>This isn't the past.
Duh.
Some learn from the mistakes of the past. Having
>lax border and immigration rules is a decades old mistake. Positive
>verification of who enters this country is needed.
At thr time it wasn't considered lax. In those days there were
roads that crossed the US-Canada border with no border control
station at all. I recall once late at night driving in southern
Quebec coming to a T-intersection where ther was a sign that
said, to the effect, you have jsut crossed into the USA; please
report to customs and immigration at Plattsburgh.
I still wonder what life will be like in the twin city of Rock
Island, Quebec/Derby Line, Vermont, if passports and passing
thorough a checkpoint becomes required.
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