Thread: What a contradiction

The United States has "official" border crossing points ...bridges between Mexico and the US. People that go across those bridges to the US ALL have to provide ID, passports, visas, etc. and are turned back if they cannot provide those things. Isn't it a total contradiction for the Feds to enforce that in those places but not on the border where there aren't official crossing points?

Originally Posted by elpasoborn

The United States has "official" border crossing points ...bridges between Mexico and the US. People that go across those bridges to the US ALL have to provide ID, passports, visas, etc. and are turned back if they cannot provide those things. Isn't it a total contradiction for the Feds to enforce that in those places but not on the border where there aren't official crossing points?

I wonder why the open borders folks and Democrats aren't mad about this? they are asking for passports now. Surely the bleeding heart progressives are worried about low income minorities and the elderly not having the money to get a passport.

http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/s ... port-fees/

State Dept. brushes off critics, raises passport fees

by Edward Hasbrouck on July 1, 2010

This week the Department of State published an interim final rule putting its previously proposed increases in passport and visa fees into effect as of July 13, 2010.

The State Department admitted that more than 98% of the comments received from individual members of the public were opposed to the fees, as were comments from the travel industry and from the Consumer Travel Alliance and other consumer and civil liberties organizations. But the State Department brushed off those objections (failing even to acknowledge complaints that the rulemaking violated U.S. international treaty obligations on freedom of movement, as well as violating the Administrative Procedure Act) and finalized the proposed fee increases unchanged. No consideration was given to their economic impact on self-employed or freelance business travelers, despite the requirement for such an assessment under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Unless the interim final rule is challenged in court (perhaps by travel companies, on APA grounds), fees for new or renewal passports and “passport cardsâ€