Reuters: U.S. Congress poised to delay border check program

[Eugene]

U.S. Congress poised to delay border check program

Reuters
Tuesday, September 26, 2006; 5:47 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers entering the United States from Canada
will win a reprieve from a post-September 11 border security program
requiring passports or other high-tech IDs, under a bill set to pass
Congress this week.

Congressional negotiators have embraced a delay of up to 17 months for
the program, which was supposed to have been fully activated by December
31, 2007.

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Following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Congress
strengthened border security, including checks on some of the millions of
people who travel by land into the country.

With only 15 months before the new program was to have started, Bush
administration officials recently told Congress of difficulties readying
identity cards and equipment to read those cards at border stations.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601078.html

[w4rma]

1. Good. There are no dangers whatsoever from the Canadian border. (nt)