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Title: (CHERTOFF) U.S. plans alternative to passports (NATIONAL ID CARDS)
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Canada.com
URL Source: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/ ... 4915-a13c-bf5ed9a29bb8&k=49950
Published: Jan 17, 2006
Author: Canadian Press
Post Date: 2006-01-17 21:48:49 by robin
Keywords: alternative, (CHERTOFF), passports
Views: 102
Comments: 10
WASHINGTON -- The United States plans to develop an inexpensive and secure travel card for cross-border visitors by the end of the year. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the document will be an alternative to passports and similar to a driver's licence or other personal identification card. The new document is part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, an attempt to increase security following the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Chertoff said a new system at border crossings, called People Access Security Service or PASS, will improve security but won't disrupt tourism and business travel. Canadian officials have objected to plans that would require passports, saying it would be too expensive and disrupt daily cross-border trips.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) listens to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff (L) speak during a joint news conference at the State Department 17 January, 2006 in Washington, DC. Rice and Chertoff delivered a plan to use modern technology to facilitate increasing border security while making the process of entering the US smoother. Photograph by : BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
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#4. To: robin (#0)
Well .. I guess we are on the fast track to the USSA.
All you need is a PASS.
Amazing.. is this being reported elsewhere?
All misleading titles: The "liberal" NYTimes chose this title: U.S. Announces Plan to Improve Border Security The Seattle Times chose this title: U.S. eases passport requirement for some travelers to Canada, Mexico
Not surprising.. makes it sound like a good thing.. dear lord.
Playing devil's advocate here... what EXACTLY is it that you object to and what do you propose should be done instead that would tighten up our borders better? It's an understood that the days of handing over a birth certificate and a wave as you drive on through are long gone... so what SHOULD we do? Just looking for your ideas and reasons for such grave concern??...
#10. To: siagiah (#9)
so what SHOULD we do? Not this: Now, the PASS system is an important first step in implementing a broader shared vision for a unified, user-friendly system for trusted travelers. Secretary Rice and I have been working together to establish a global enrollment network that will unify our various registered traveler programs into a single comprehensive system. The idea here is to get necessary information only one time from an applicant and then create a system, an architecture, that allows both DHS and State Department officers to get access to this data to confirm the traveler's identity. This is NOT about border security. The illegals will still pour over the border. They don't use passports and birth certificates NOW. This is about CONTROLLING AMERICANS. Knowing where they are, knowing what they do, knowing everything about them. That way they can label those who might be a problem a "terrorist": http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=17937 And then put them away in FEMA camps:
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#5. To: Zipporah (#4)
fast track
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#9. To: Zipporah, Robin (#8)
Replies to Comment # 9. Playing devil's advocate here... what EXACTLY is it that you object to and what do you propose should be done instead that would tighten up our borders better? It's an understood that the days of handing over a birth certificate and a wave as you drive on through are long gone... so what SHOULD we do? Just looking for your ideas and reasons for such grave concern??...
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