Feds to Suspend Border Passport Rule
By MATTHEW LEE and DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON Jun 8, 2007 (AP)
The Bush administration is poised to suspend a major post-9/11 security initiative to cope with increasingly angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened by new passport rules.
A proposal, expected to be announced Friday, will temporarily waive a requirement that U.S. citizens have passports to fly to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda, provided the traveler can prove he or she has already applied for a passport, officials said Thursday.
webmasters note-We shouldn’t need a passport to get back into this country from Canada. It’s just Bush’s government trying to control the US citizens!