WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration may 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 under consideration would temporarily waive a requirement that U.S. passports be used for air travel to and from Canada and Mexico, provided the traveler can prove he or she has applied for a passport, officials said Thursday.

The proposed six-month suspension in the rules is aimed at clearing a massive backlog of passport applications at the State Department that has slowed processing to a crawl, they said.

But the plan has run into opposition from the Homeland Security Department, which controls U.S. border points and fears the move could make it easier for terrorists or other undesirables to enter the country, the officials said.

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Feds May Suspend Border Passport Rule

Passports?? And not having one might make it easier for terrorists or other undesirables to enter the country?? And having one is really going to prevent terrorists or other undesirables from entering the country??

Ya know, maybe we could avoid all this border problem, just ask the illegals to wait until their passports are all nice and proper, yeah, that’ll do it, the terrorists can’t get in and the illegals are held in place because we all know there’s no way a terrorist or illegal is going to break the law, right??

Passports aren’t going to do a thing to stop illegals and terrorists from entering the USA and anyone that thinks otherwise is not terribly up to date on how easy it is to get into this nation, something I heard years ago comes to mind, ‘All a lock does is keep an honest man honest’, and that’s exactly what a passport does, it keeps honest citizens honest…

Forget the passports for crossing between the USA, Canada and Mexico, seal the borders Mr. Bush, defend THIS nation, bring our National Guard troops home and use them for the job they were intended…