$135 dollars for something that used to be free, and for some still is

United States
August 6, 2010 10:47am CST
Why is it ok for illegal immigrants to cross the border for free but for me its $135? Being back in my home town I was considering going to Canada for a visit. It is something I used to do on a regular basis for my old job. I had to travel to different automotive plants in Canada and sometimes I just went over there to take the family out to lunch, go shopping or things of that nature. So I decided it was time to check out and see what it was I needed to get across the border, now it is going to cost me nearly a hundred and fifty bucks and a long wait to get a passport. Not only that but I read on the travel.state.gov website that anyone who even has a misdemeanor may be barred from entry and must obtain a special waiver well in advance of any planned travel but yet we have illegal immigrants crossing our borders and some of them were involved in violent crimes and our government won't do anything about it. Where is the sense in all these laws if it only applies to people who are not a threat?
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
6 Aug 10
Canada is smarter than the US, that's all there is to it. If we made sure everyone who entered the US had a passport, they'd have to pay, too. Our laws are like barking dogs without teeth and if we do come up with one that bites, the Feds make sure to pull its teeth.
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@poingly (605)
• United States
10 Aug 10
Um...you need a passport to enter America. In fact, you needed one to enter America at the Canadian/American border before you needed one to enter Canada at the same border. This makes Canadians smarter...how? Also, the Canadian/American border is the easiest one in the world to cross illegally...
• United States
14 Aug 10
you beat me to it peavey. one of my friends in canada was telling me this-us to canada travel now requires a passport.it makes them smarter in the sense that at least they check some traveling in..but i'm sure there's still places people cut across illegally.although i'm sure it's not the flood we have going on in the south.
• Canada
22 Aug 10
what are you talking about peavey? It is the US Government that requests you to have a passport to travel to Canada. Besides the US is one of the hardest countries to get into legally. Geographically you have a problem with your Southern border but the Government cannot change the lay of the land. You have built a fence, maybe it is not big enough. Maybe your Southern neighbours are just so desperate that they risk anything even their lives to get into the US.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
7 Aug 10
It's the upside down and inside out thinking and words of "political correctness" designed to manipulate thinking, words, and morality. It's flat-out WRONG. Like our current usurper calling terrorist attacks "man-made disasters". It's Marxism, pure and simple, Orwellian doublethink and doublespeak, to mask the fact that the emperor has no clothes and hide truth. It's deception and lies, calling good evil and evil good. Woe to America if honest people do nothing. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". Ignoring evil allows evil to multiply until evil can no longer be ignored. The border situation is a deliberate threat to national security and our protection, yet the imposter promotes lawlessness and sues those doing their Constitutional duty to protect us. Illegal immigrants are illegal and that is lawlessness and evil per se. Lawlessness will prevail over laws as long as an illegal alien usurper is allowed to remain in the WH. People have "looked the other way" for too long, but he is the lynchpin and has laid out a welcome mat for illegals and terrorists of all kinds. We are now a third world country and will soon be the country that never was absent this evil being stopped.
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Aug 10
i am not sure anybody could
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
8 Aug 10
The crux of the matter is that honest people are "taxed" and prohibited, while those who choose lawlessness are rewarded. That is upside down and inside out. Americans are being made to suffer needlessly in the name of "political correctness" which is the antithesis of truth and justice.
@poingly (605)
• United States
7 Aug 10
Um...what? I'm not sure I follow.
• United States
7 Aug 10
Don't you just love keeping our nation safe? I don't like this either, and I haven't been to Canada since this became law. I am sure that this has hurt Canada a lot, and if you haven't been there, Canada is a great country. The people are very nice, and they have a lot to offer.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
10 Aug 10
I have wondered where the illegals will go after they have destroyed the United States, making it a third world country. Will they head for Canada, and will the Canadian government be as stupid and uncaring of its citizens as our government has been of us? I hope they will learn from our mistakes.
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Aug 10
very surprised you didn't need a passport before. normally going from one country to another requires a passport. i think you need to think of not needing one in the past as 'nice while it lasted' also now you have a passport you can go to other countries too.
@poingly (605)
• United States
7 Aug 10
Keep in mind that Canadians needed a passport to get into America before Americans needed one to get into Canada. In fact, for a while I think an American could enter Canada but needed a passport to get back into America. This is part of the tightening of borders people are asking for in many ways.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
6 Aug 10
I felt the same way when we were going on our Alaskan Cruise. We had to wait a couple of months to get our passport, and it was about the same as yours for two people and it is only good for eight years. Both of us before we were married and living on our own, went with friends to the States. My husband would go with his brother and me with my foster parents. That was before we met and all anyone had to do is to answer the questions "how long are you staying?" or "Are you bringing anything back." And were given a form of what we could bring back and that did not include things we had to use while there. The only people who got checked out were those who were on the buses. But now we go through the wringer. Yet the illegals can come and go as they please. So are we the ones that have to be protected against or not?