AP: U.S. to Exempt Kids From Passport Rules

[Eugene]

U.S. to Exempt Kids From Passport Rules
U.S. Expected to Announce Move to Exempt Children
From New Passport Rules for Border Travel

By RON VAMPLE

DETROIT Feb 22, 2007 (AP)— U.S. and Canadian children will be exempt from
new rules that will require travelers to show passports when entering the U.S.
at land or sea borders, a move the Bush administration said Thursday is aimed
at helping families and school groups.

The new passport requirements will take effect as soon as January 2008. In a
change from earlier plans, U.S. and Canadian citizens ages 15 or younger with
parental consent will be allowed to cross the borders at land and sea entry
points with certified copies of their birth certificates rather than passports.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discussed the relaxation in rules
at a speech Thursday to the Detroit Economic Club before touring the Detroit-
Windsor Tunnel, a link with Windsor, Ontario under the Detroit River.

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U.S. and Canadian citizens ages 16 through 18 traveling with school, religious,
cultural or athletic groups and under adult supervision will also be allowed to
travel with only their birth certificates.

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Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2896668

[babylonsister]

1. While that's great news, why is this admin and agency so clueless?

DHS is a big fat joke; the ass doesn't know what the elbow is doing.