“It is a real border, and we need to address it as a real border.”

That’s what U.S. 국토 안보부 재닛 나폴리 타노 insisted about the U.S.-Canadian border at a Washington, 직류. conference on border issues this week.

CBC 뉴스 quoted Napolitano as saying, “People are used to going back and forth, and the hockey teams go back and forth…. People just don’t think of it as two different countries. But the reality exists that there’s a border there.”

In a 지구 & 메일 article about the event, headlined “Obama’s message: Glory days of open border are gone,” 특약 기고가 ì¡´ Ibbitson wrote that Napolitano’s goal was “…to throw a bucket of reality on anyone who hoped that the arrival of Barack Obama’s new administration would herald a loosening of new restrictions on cross-border traffic.”

Ibbitson went on to say that “Canadian politicians, and industry leaders on both sides of the border, hoped that the arrival of a new, Democratic administration would lessen the emphasis on security that Mr. Napolitano’s predecessor, 마이클 Chertoff, placed on border relations.”

CBC에 따르면, Napolitano “…also said there would be no further delay of the 서반구 여행 이니셔티브, which as of June 1 will require adults entering the United States from Canada, 카리브해, Bermuda or Mexico to present a passport. That phase of the initiative has been delayed several times.”

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