U.S. not ready to implement new travel law: report

CHIMO

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Wed May-31-06 08:16 PM
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U.S. not ready to implement new travel law: report

U.S. not ready to implement new travel law: report
Last Updated Wed, 31 May 2006 21:10:37 EDT
CBC News

The Bush administration is not ready to implement a travel law that would require everyone entering the U.S. to have a passport or some other form of national identification by Jan. 2008, according to a new report.

" and State have a long way to go to implement their proposed plans for the Travel Initiative, and the time to get the job done is slipping by," according to study conducted by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) — a non-partisan investigative arm of Congress.

Among concerns raised by the GAO, the Department of Homeland Security has not decided what documents will be acceptable as an alternative to a passport and what technologies might be used, such as an electonic "pass card."

The GAO also tells the agencies to complete a cost-benefit analysis of their final plan, including an examination of how tourism and commerce might be discouraged by the new law.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/05/31/travel-premiers.html

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Kagemusha

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Wed May-31-06 08:19 PM
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1. This isn't a small issue either.

If they're not ready to implement, they've scared away large amounts of tourism long in advance of implementation of this law, for... nothing.

To call that an own goal would be a massive understatement.

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Earth_First

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Wed May-31-06 08:24 PM
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2. Absolutely.

Especially concerning the US/Canada border in the greater Buffalo/Niagara Falls region. Massive amounts of economic livelihood depends upon the tourism dollars created in this region. For those of you who are not familiar with the drastic economic downswing that the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region has suffered, one only needs to look so far as the closed Parks and Recreation Departments (et. al) to understand just how badly the region depends on this.

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Mnemosyne

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Wed May-31-06 08:46 PM
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3. Maybe they should just build a *fence* on our

Northern border also.

Asshats.:grr:

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