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[*] posted on 4-9-2005 at 12:49 PM


Bruce, your correct, passports are easy and cheap. It wont take long for the travling family to have one for everybody in the household.
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[*] posted on 4-9-2005 at 01:28 PM


Not cheap....

$97.00 plus pictures $7= $114 min

Let's say 4 people in the family...that's $456

That's extra money out of pocket....for vacation use

The DMV has more information than the passport agency who issues a passport....I guarantee that

This will hurt only the poor...and those are the people who travel across the border the most

A passport should not be required for our open borders.
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[*] posted on 4-9-2005 at 01:41 PM
Dave, I have to agree with Bob and Susan


and along with the cost, there is the element of applying and waiting for a passport. That does not encourage last minute planning, which is where the bulk of the visitors to your area of the peninsula came from.

Perhaps there will be the exception of persons under 18 with their parents will not have to have passports, because before they didn't have driver's licenses to show at the border.

I do not suspect that the risk of a child with a suicide bomb strapped to them is worth forcing all the children of part-time visitors to have to have passports. Time will tell.

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[*] posted on 4-9-2005 at 05:35 PM


For adults, the passport is good for 10 years so a onetime wait to get one should not bother the next 9 yr 10 months of spontaniety.

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[*] posted on 4-9-2005 at 06:35 PM


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This will hurt only the poor...and those are the people who travel across the border the most


And just who would these folks be? Remember we're talking about legally crossing the border.




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[*] posted on 4-10-2005 at 08:38 AM


People who live in the US LEGALLY near the border.....

Drivers Lic has much more info and the database is updated all the time...
They get your fingerprint AND your picture at the same time.

A passport only shows that you MAY be a citizen of the US....

All you provided your own photo taken anywhere, and....( NOT to the actual Passport Agency but to an acceptance office which could be anyone) ...and a paper birth cert and an application....these people ARE NOT PROFESSIONALS!!!

Do you think the passport agency checks the birth cert to see if it's real...think again!!!

The address on the passport could be 10 years old....no way can you find someone with this....

It's just overkill to keep dollars in the country.

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[*] posted on 4-12-2005 at 03:57 PM


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For adults, the passport is good for 10 years so a onetime wait to get one should not bother the next 9 yr 10 months of spontaniety.

Most of the surfs I know will start to think about getting one but it will take nine years and ten months for them to get around to it. :lol:

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[*] posted on 4-12-2005 at 05:00 PM


BajaLou

Your dead on, its a bargain. Is it planned spontaniety? Maybe, but it beats the hell out of the alternative.
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[*] posted on 4-15-2005 at 03:34 PM


Crossing last week, I asked the border agent about the passport requirements. He said it starts Jan. 2006. I asked him if he was positive because I had heard 2007 or 2008. He said that was what they were being told.

Think this will cut traffic down at the crossings?




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[*] posted on 4-15-2005 at 06:16 PM


I bring my passport with me everytime I cross the border. I use it to get my tourist visa. The address section on the passport is filled in by pencil so you can change your address when or if you move.
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[*] posted on 4-15-2005 at 08:04 PM


Bush Retraces Passport Plan Steps

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(CBS/AP) President George W. Bush said Thursday he has ordered a review of plans to tighten border re-entry rules from Mexico and Canada because requiring passports for everyone could "disrupt the honest flow of traffic."

Mr. Bush said he has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and officials from the Homeland Security Department to see whether more flexibility could be exercised.

The new rules, which would take effect in 2008, were included in intelligence legislation that Congress passed last year.

But this came to a surprise to Mr. Bush, CBS News Radio Correspondent Mark Knoller reports.

"I said 'What's going on here?' I thought there was a better way to expedite the legal flow of traffic and people," Mr. Bush said.

Mr. Bush says the passport regulation will disrupt the honest flow of traffic. He says he's asked the Departments of State and Homeland Security to see if there is some flexibility in the law.

Mr. Bush told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that this flexibility might include electronic fingerprint imaging "to serve as a so-called passport for daily traffic" to help speed up the process.

Americans would need passports to come home to the United States under guidelines proposed recently as part of an effort to deter terrorists from entering the country. The new rules apply to Americans traveling from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, the Caribbean and Panama as well as citizens from those countries who want to enter the United States.

An estimated 60 million Americans have passports, about 20 percent of the nation's population.

"When I first read that in the newspaper about the need to have passports ? particularly the day crossings that take place, about a million for instance in the state of Texas ? I said, `What's going on here?"' Bush said when asked about the new rules.

"I thought there was a better way to expedite the legal flow of traffic and people," he said.

"If people have to have a passport, it's going to disrupt the honest flow of traffic. I think there's some flexibility in the law, and that's what we're checking out right now," he said.

"On the larger scale, we've got a lot to do to enforce the border," he said.

Mr. Bush has proposed immigration-liberalization legislation that would establish a guest-worker program, but it has encountered difficulty in Congress, particularly among Republicans from states along the Mexican border.

Around 10 million immigrants live in the United States illegally; most are from Mexico, with an additional million arriving every year.

"Now is the time for legal reforming of the immigration system," Bush said, and asked Congress to work with him.

"I have no illusions," he said. "This is a tough issue for people."




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[*] posted on 4-15-2005 at 08:07 PM


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(CBS/AP) President George W. Bush said Thursday he has ordered a review of plans to tighten border re-entry rules from Mexico and Canada because requiring passports for everyone could "disrupt the honest flow of traffic."

Mr. Bush said he has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and officials from the Homeland Security Department to see whether more flexibility could be exercised.



This is a dead issue. It ain't gonna happen.




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[*] posted on 4-16-2005 at 07:40 PM


This whole passport issue seems to be going the way of more confusion as it changes daily. Brendan's passport was expiring in Nov. so his father and I went down to the court house together to renew it....we were sent home to gather more paper work, more than was required since the last time, (you have to have a new one every 5 yrs. for children) we followed instructions, the next day we came armed with the new paperwork (being told that if we got it back that week we would avoid the new huge increase for the passport fee) We couldn't get back that next day as Brendan's Dad had to work late......sooooooo, the next day we did get back with the paperwork only to be told THEN that we needed to bring Brendan with us! HE'S 11! UGH!

Sooooo, Brendan's passport is expired, and it seems that the only problem that might occure when we try to cross into the USA is that he won't be allowed back into his own country. OH WELL.....we could get stuck in worse places :lol:
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[*] posted on 4-18-2005 at 09:58 AM


Every citizen should have a passport...period. It's the best and most universal form of identification both within and outside the country. It's part of the cost of being a responsible citizen. I think it's unconscionable for a US citizen, especially one who lives near any border, to not have a passport. Heck, I even have one from my native country as well!!
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[*] posted on 4-18-2005 at 10:59 AM
knuckleheads out


Passports should had been required all along. Very few places in this world that doesnt require them. Besides...a requirement of this will keep most knuckleheads out of Mexico. Who needs the felons and lowlife at their favorite beach head? For the lost soles here that could use further information on getting a passport:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html
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