Border Towns Fret Over New Passport Rules

by Martin Kaste, NPR

Communities on the Canadian border say that increasingly strict identification rules since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are threatening the cozy neighborliness of their way of life. Their concerns led them to persuade Congress to postpone and water down the passport rules for land-crossings.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, January 23, 2007