This is what was posted:
Passports will supposedly be required for all land and sea border
crossings into the US sometime in 2008 or by June 1, 2009 at the
latest. However, three things may happen between now and then:
The PASS card passport substitute may be unveiled
High-tech driver's licenses may be introduced for border crossing purposes
Teens under 18 may be allowed to continue crossing borders with only a birth certificate, as is currently possible (read more)
A passport land travel rule change date of January, 2008, is probably a
ludicrous fantasy for the Department of Homeland Security, as some kind
of inexpensive border crossing substitute for a $97 passport, like the
PASS card, is not going to happen by then. The DHS has not even begun
to look at ecomomic impacts from the new passport requirements -- the
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will cost more than $100 million
annually.
Congress will recess in August, 2007, and a conference committee is
slated to meet for a discussion which may delay the PASS card
implementation as insecure RFID technology proposed for use in chips in
the cards is discussed."
The US House of Representatives wants to extend the land crossing
deadline to 2009, but the Department of Homeland Security is trying to
shoot for Jan. 2008. Canada wants to extend everything too. It's a big
mess overall.
