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Feds to suspend border passport rule
Yahoo! News ^ | June 7, 2007 | MATTHEW LEE and DEVLIN BARRETT

Posted on 06/07/2007 8:08:07 PM PDT by El Conservador

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Mismanaged policy, all around.

State Dept. didn't count with the monumental landslide-plus-avalanche of passport applications, and DHS didn't count with the monumental aggravation they would cause on the traveling public, besides not having an efficient implementation program. It is as if DHS just said "let's ask for passports to all US citizens entering the country", and left it at that.

Well, I got my passport already, but I feel for those who don't.

1 posted on 06/07/2007 8:08:08 PM PDT by El Conservador
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To: El Conservador

Same here. I have had mine for a few years and am glad to have it in hand.


2 posted on 06/07/2007 8:11:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened

It was like we were saying the other day, TV is just not the same without Islamists flying planes into buildings and something needed to be done about that. Lazy Americans who can't be bothered to follow current events should be the perfect excuse to spice up TV. I was even going to cancel my cable out of boredom.
3 posted on 06/07/2007 8:13:20 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: El Conservador

I applied to renew my passport back in February. I still haven’t gotten it back yet. Ugh.


4 posted on 06/07/2007 8:13:58 PM PDT by bourbon (Islam hates the West, and the West hates itself. How will we survive?)
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To: El Conservador

I QUESTION THE TIMING.


5 posted on 06/07/2007 8:14:39 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: bourbon

Great, I gotta renew mine right now. Did you expedite?


6 posted on 06/07/2007 8:18:07 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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Well, I got my passport already but I feel for those who don't.

I don't. If they're too stupid to plan, then they're too stupid to travel (except to McDonalds).

7 posted on 06/07/2007 8:20:20 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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I've had a passport since I was 14. My photo is getting old, however (it was taken 9 years ago, when I was in grad school).

Anyone who just decides to travel abroad "spur of the moment" for anything other than a dire emergency without thinking about the need for a passport is idiotic.

8 posted on 06/07/2007 8:22:31 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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I QUESTION THE TIMING.

Betcha the Mexicans and terrorists haven't. With open borders, the "war on terror" is a joke. Anyone who supports the amnesty bill should be put in jail.

IMO

9 posted on 06/07/2007 8:23:38 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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And this is the same bureaucracy that was supposed to handle 20 million z visas.


10 posted on 06/07/2007 8:23:53 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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These are the same clowns who were going to issue 20 million Z-visas and do a one-day credentials check on the illegals.

Think the news of this was being held until after the Senate amnesty vote?


11 posted on 06/07/2007 8:24:09 PM PDT by oldbill
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Wow - great minds, eh?


12 posted on 06/07/2007 8:24:46 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: El Conservador

Hmmmm, my Darling Daughter got hers in about a month, in plenty of time for her trip to Oz in a few weeks.

Maybe Americans need to learn to plan ahead?


13 posted on 06/07/2007 8:29:04 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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And this is the same bureaucracy that was supposed to handle 20 million z visas.

In a just world, that would leave a mark...

14 posted on 06/07/2007 8:30:26 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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Think the news of this was being held until after the Senate amnesty vote?

naaaaaaahhhh...

15 posted on 06/07/2007 8:31:20 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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They can screw themselves. I and many Montanans simply won’t go to Canada any longer.


16 posted on 06/07/2007 8:33:12 PM PDT by claudiustg (I didn't leave the Republican Party. I was purged.)
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Oh The HUMANITY!!!


17 posted on 06/07/2007 8:33:58 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: Cobra64

Funny how it is announced anonymously ... and right AFTER the Shamnesty bill croaks.

Withheld to try to keep the Citizen uproar from being even more loud and assertive?

Inoculation for the next version of the Bill?

Just overheard on the radio, Duncan Hunter calling again for building the fence, authorized in the bill from last year. That’s an American.

And thank you, Alabama, for Jeff Sessions!


18 posted on 06/07/2007 8:35:52 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Cobra64

My wife’s mother (both Canadian) has to go in for unexpected surgery. There is no way they could process the application in time.

I should pass along your comment to her, and let her provide a reply on this thread.


19 posted on 06/07/2007 8:35:55 PM PDT by Nachoman (I can't help the way I think.)
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Don’t forget the new excessive fee structure.


20 posted on 06/07/2007 8:39:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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