U.S./Canadian Dispute over Border Crossing Procedures
The main sticking point was Homeland’s unwillingness to accept Canada’s legal problem with having U.S. authorities take fingerprints of people who approach the border but decide not to cross.
Canadian law doesn’t permit fingerprinting unless someone volunteers or has been charged with a crime.
Canada’s assurances that it would co-operate in investigating any suspicious person who approaches the border weren’t enough, said one Capitol Hill source.
“The Attorney General’s office really just wants to grab as much biometric information as it can,” said the source.
Michael • May 6, 2007 12:53 PM
Here’s another one.
You fly to / in the US and they force you to take your shoes and belts off. But that’s it, once you’re through nobody cares who you are.
Take Canada, keep your shoes, keep your belt (even if it trips the metal detector) but you want to get on board? Have your ID ready.
I have to get into the US regularly via airline (the idea to make the trip in the car / bus has become uninteresting to me since paranoia has kicked into high gear), and the clear message (louder and louder every time I step up to Immigration officials) is: We don’t WANT you here.