Delay on border ID implementation

Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 17 month delay in the implementation of a post-9/11 security measure that would require passports or other biometric IDs for everyone entering the US. Senators cited the lack of coordination among US agencies and between US and Canadian officials as the reason for the delay. (The provision for delayed implementation had also been included in the Senate immigration bill, but with passage of that bill uncertain, the Senators decided to move the measure into a bill that actually is moving forward.)

-jmc