Passports revisited:

[Kristinsgrandpa]

Last week (I think) the subject of passports came up about re-entry into the country from Canada and Mexico.

I just read this in the news:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,283155,00.html

I thought I'd pass it along.

I also did a drive by at the Cincinnati rally, Met Chaz, Paul Elbisser, Ed Roelle and a bunch of other people.

The Queen for the day Centerfold coach arrived just shortly after i did and kept everyones undivided attention for several hours. At least till the seminar on Alaska travels, it was well presented and had some fascinating info .

  George Myers was there and did a seminar on coach wiring and also did a great job.

The campground was packed and renewed my ambition to get mine done.
Ed.

[prevost82]

Ed ...this whole border thing is becoming a joke. There are so many remote places for the bad guys to cross between Canada & the US that it would take a 100 ft high fence the length of the border to secure it ... costing trillion of dollars and wouldn't do a dam bit of good. The bad guys will always find a way in whether it's drugs or terrorist.  But we are losing our freedoms (on both sides of the border) day by day. I guess the terrorist are winning.

Sorry for the rant
Ron

[Don4107]

So what happens to you if you don't have a passport when coming back to the US from Canada?  The place where we cross is so slow we usually have a 5 minute chat with the guards about what lures/colors worked and what others are using, ect.  If they won't let me back in I will just have to stay and fish more.   

[Stan]

I expect the border crossings at the Canadian and Mexican borders do like the airlines have been doing all year. They won't let you cross (or board and airplane) unless you have the necessary papers to get back home.

[Nusa]

Airlines I'm sure and I don't know about Canadian authorities. But I can tell you that entering Mexico is still just a matter of walking/driving across the border. Coming back is where all the checks are. If you lose all your paperwork, crossing back is going to be a painful process now, of course. Years ago they just asked "Are you American?" and waved you through if you answered yes in English.

[buswarrior]

Hello.

Probably best to get your application in now.

One way or another, we're all going to need one to travel internationally.

History will no doubt cast US Homeland Security in the same light as McCarthy and his crew in times past.

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Hartley]

Probably more like if you don't have papers you won't be able to cross state lines.

Kinda like the discussion about traveling the united states in the movie " Hunt for Red October "

If DHS has anything to say, They will screw up the already screwed up concept of travel. The only people they will slow down or detain will be bonafide citizens. The radicals and terrorists will have free passes to anywhere they want to drive or fly. ( They are smarter than DHS any day as it seems. )

DHS = Military Intelligence and we all know what that is...

"D"emogogic "H"arrassment "S"ociety   .... The job you get because you can't find work anywhere else!

Don't take this too literally... In many ways it's almost funny....

[Dallas]

Shhhhhhh,

Big Brother is watching.

[bobofthenorth]

I've travelled with a passport since the brief period during Reagan's presidency when some bunch of wackos was threatening to assassinate him & we were required to have passports to enter the US.  Dr.D is right - the terrorists have won.  Honest citizens are the most inconvenienced by so-called security measures.  Until we are prepared to aggressively profile we are not increasing security - just the illusion of security.  When they virtually strip search my 81 year old father and let a male person of arabic descent travelling alone walk through because he didn't set the machine off and my father did then I know that we have all lost.  Sorry - but that's the way it is and if that makes me a bigot then so be it.

[brojcol]

We went to Niagara Falls this weekend and carried our birth certificate for the 5 yr old and driver's licenses for the wife and me.  No problems.  Border patrol was friendly (except one burly American).

[buswarrior]

Hello

Recent news reports that the US will be delaying implimentation for a passport for a land border crossing another 6 months, out to June 2008.

Overwhelmed passport offices is one reason cited.

That is, of course, as long as there are no more attacks on US soil....

All the same, best to get that application in sooner than later.

happy coaching!
buswarrior