On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:35:03 GMT, Greg Rozelle
wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:02:58 GMT, "sharx35"
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"Greg Rozelle" wrote in message
>>news:t5Quh.4911$O02.218@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
>>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:42:19 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>anadians
>>>>for refusing to be sucked in helping to invade Iraq on the basis of lies
>>>>about WMDs. We refused to go along with Bush's lies so now he wants to set
>>>>up roadblocks to people crossing the border freely as we have been doing
>>>>for generations.
>>>
>>> Dave,
>>> Then why is the Canadian government not complaining to the U.S. about
>>> the new passport requirements that may happen for land and sea travel.
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg Rozelle
>>
>>You really are an idiot if you don't realize that a secure passport system
>>is far better than the current system of using drivers licenses, etc, for
>>ID. Terrorism? ever heard the word? Borders HAVE to be tightened up. First
>>step was air travel, Next year or so, land and sea travel. Think before you
>>post, eh?
>>
>>
>>
>
>sharx35,
>
>I do not know if your talking to me or Dave.
>
>I said the passport may be requirement for land and sea travel it is
>a maybe. They are still working a passport card that should be a lot
>cheaper. I also said U.S. congress may delay this requirement tell
>2009 or insist on developing a cheaper identification requirement for
>land and sea travel.
>
>It seem like Canadians will have a harder time in getting a passport.
>
>If the passport for land and sea travel did come into effect. There
>will be a lost in tourist in all those areas that didn't require
>passports before. The tourist industry say's it could be billions of
>dollars lost. Which may mean high taxes for everyone.
>
>What about the people that live in the apartment building that is
>right along the Canada and US line and the library is as well.
>
>Who would want to get a passport to go to the library?
Which raises the question of how this is affecting, or will
affect, the border-straddling towns of Derby Line, Vermont, and
Rock Island, Quebec, where the international line actuall passes
right through certain jointly shared facilities like the library
and opera house. And a large local amployer, a tool and die
factory, is split by the border with employees of both nations.
When we drove through in the 1960s, before the interstate highway
was built bypassing the towns, we drove right down the main
street and the border was indiscernibld; we almost drove right by
the border station, which looked kind of like a service staion
along the side of the four-lane street.
>
>Did you know it is not that easy to get a driver license or a state
>id. The new real id law is now in effect. So it is even harder.
>
>Ugh. The terrorist didn't come from Canada or Mexico.
>
>I am for a tighter border but not for the possible new passport
>requirement that may come about for land and sea travel.
>
>For your info it was not President Bush that wanted to require
>passport to Canada or Mexico. He wants to build a wall for Mexico but
>not for terrorist reason for immigration reasons. Mexico, is
>planning on trying to stop the United State from building this wall.
So are a number of Congresscritters and the association of
sheriffs of border counties opposes it. Most of us who live down
this way think it's pretty much a waste of money. Anyone familiar
with the terrain tends to think so. We were driving on some back
roads near the border west of the Nogales, AZ/SON, a month or so
ago. We stopped and looked at one of the steep ravines that
carries a stream across the border and wondered how on earth
anyone thought that an effective wall could be built there.
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