Thread: Canadian border, Letter to the USA TODAY

Canadian border

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. - Rochester, N.Y.

The reason I and others are opposed to the new passport requirements for the northern border is that it's a pointless exercise ("Liberty gets her view back," Cover story, News, Thursday).

The new rules will result in increased lines, will be a burden to families and small businesses and are almost certainly unlikely to make this country safer.

Terrorists who want to harm us can slip into the U.S. along hundreds of miles of unguarded borders. I'd be surprised to see one naively walk across the beautiful Peace Bridge in Buffalo with an armful of weapons and bad intentions.

Posted at 12:05 AM/ET, July 08, 2009 in Letter to the editor, Politics - Letters

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/07/ ... .html#more

Didn't a guy get arrested a couple of years ago for driving a car loaded with explosives into the U.S. from Canada?

He was going to blow up LAX on News Years Day if I recall correctly.

And you want to let people drive right on in so that you won't be inconvenienced?

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Didn't a guy get arrested a couple of years ago for driving a car loaded with explosives into the U.S. from Canada?

He was going to blow up LAX on News Years Day if I recall correctly.

And you want to let people drive right on in so that you won't be inconvenienced?

wasnt that back in 1999 or 2000. i think he wanted to blow it up when the new millineum started

And we still have illegals trying to sneak across the Mexican border at checkpoints - hidden in trucks or with false documents. There should be the same policy in effect at both borders.