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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art present
The Creative Journev of Morris Graves
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Tourism industry troubled
by possible passport rules
BY MELANTHIA MITCHELL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — Tourism officials in
Washington state are concerned
that proposed rules requiring Amer
icans to have passports to re-enter
the United States from Canada will
be bad for business.
By 2008, any U.S. citizen returning
to the United States from Canada,
Mexico, Panama and Bermuda will
have to show a passport under guide
lines the Bush administration pro
posed Tliesday in the latest effort to de
ter terrorists from entering the country.
Some in the travel industry, how
ever, doubt people will apply for a
passport just to go to Canada and
are worried business will decline.
“So few Americans travel abroad
that there is not a compelling need
or case to get a passport,” said Dar
rell Bryan, executive vice president
for Victoria Clipper, a private ferry
service that carries about 300,000
people annually on daily trips be
tween Seattle and Victoria, British
Columbia. "This is just going to
make it much more difficult for us
to attract customers.”
Others don’t foresee any major
problems, but with travel to Wash
ington from Canada beginning to
bounce back, they’re being
cautiously optimistic.
“We’re going to pay close atten
tion to this new development,” said
Peter McMillin, director of tourism
and film for Washington.
About 60 million Americans, rough
ly 20 percent of the national popula
tion, currently have passports, accord
ing to the U.S. State Department.
Canadians also would have to
present a passport to enter the Unit
ed States beginning at the end of
next year for air and sea travelers,
and a year later at land crossings.
There are concerns that travel
into Washington will suffer, but
McMillin said his agency will
continue working with both federal
government and industry officials to
try to prevent that from happening.
Congress called for the new rules in
intelligence legislation it passed last
year as part of a post-Sept. 11 move to
ward tightening border security.
Customs officials in Washington
state said Tbesday they were aware of
the proposed regulations but had little
information about how it would affect
traffic at border check points.
“One of the things that it’s de
signed to do is create more unifor
mity,” said Mike Milne, public af
fairs officer for U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
On average, 1.1 million people cross
daily into the United States at any one
of its more than 300 ports of entry, in
cluding seaports, airports and land
crossings, Milne said. Border agents re
fuse access to some 1,237 each day,
about 54 of whom are non-citizens
with criminal records.
Procedures already in place re
quire travelers to show documents
establishing identity and citizen
ship, Milne said. Although pass
ports have not been mandated in
the past, a form of government-is
sued picture identification, a birth
certificate or both is needed.
Border agents also screen people
by asking where they were born,
where they currently live and what
travelers did on their visits.
“For most people that are cross
ing, it’s fairly typical kinds of
things,” Milne said.
While a passport will be the docu
ment of choice for all travelers, another
acceptable document at land crossings
will be the Border Crossing Card, or
land visa, used by Mexican citizens
traveling to the United States.
“I really think this all just stems
from a need to validate someone’s true
identity,” said Joe Giuliano, deputy
chief for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Blaine
sector, covering Western Washington,
Oregon and Alaska.
The new rules will requim a level
of consistency, reducing the burden
on border inspectors who now must
validate multiple forms of identifica
tion and therefore expediting the
process, Giuliano said.
As with any change, Giuliano
said he expects it will be seen as in
convenient at first, but eventually
people will adjust.
“Ultimately ... we’re going to see
a broader requirement for passports
in just about any international
Passport becomes
key to return home
By 2008, Americans will need a
passport to return home from
countries that previously required
only a driver's license, or a
license and one additional proof
of citizenship such as a birth
certificate, according to the
Department of State.
Countries where a passport
will be required for re-entry
Estimated number of out
bound trips to each country
by U.S. residents in 2003*
Mexico 17.6 million
Canada 14.2 million
Panama 196,000
Bermuda 140,000**
* Staying one or more nights
** Data is for 2002 (2003 not available)
SOURCES: U.S. Department of AP
Commerce, International Trade
Administration, Office of Travel and
Tourism Industries; ESRI
travel in this world,” Giuliano
said. “It’s just going to become
one of those things that becomesan
other everyday aspect of our lives.”
The proposed rules are scheduled
to be finalized this fall. Until
then, the government will solicit
comments from the public.
Lawmakers indicate strong
support for civil-union bill
BY SUSAN HAIGH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARTFORD, Conn. — Lawmak
ers said Thesday they believe they
have enough votes to pass a bill that
would make Connecticut the first
state to recognize civil unions be
tween same-sex couples without in
tervention from the courts.
The Democrat-controlled Senate is
scheduled to vote Wednesday on the
bill. It will then go to the House,
where it is also expected to pass.
“Our responsibility as a state is to
have laws that ensure the well-being
of each of our citizens,” said the Rev.
Davida Foy Crabtree, minister for the
Connecticut Conference of the Unit
ed Church of Christ.
But opponents said they believe
there is still time to scuttle the bill
or amend it with language defining
marriage as a union between a man
and a woman. If the bill passes
both chambers, opponents vowed
to pressure Republican Gov. M. Jodi
Rell to veto it.
Rell has said she supports the
concept of civil unions. However,
she has not taken a stand on the
bill, which extends all rights and
privileges of marriage without an
actual marriage license to same
sex couples.
“The legislators have not yet
heard from the people. They’re not
listening,” said Brian Brown, execu
tive director of the Family Institute
of Connecticut. “Connecticut —
we’re the ones that are doing some
thing far, far different than the rest
of the United States.”
Voters in Kansas went to the polls
Tliesday to decide whether to ap
prove a constitutional amendment
prohibiting gay marriage. If ap
proved, Kansas would become the
18th state with such a prohibition in
its constitution.
Alabama, South Dakota and Ten
nessee plan elections next year on
constitutional gay marriage bans,
and proposals are pending in 13 oth
er states, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures.
Vermont is the only state that rec
ognizes civil unions; Massachusetts
allows same-sex couples to marry.
Kansans may approve
ban on gay marriage
TOPEKA, Kan. — Early results
showed a wide margin of Kansas vot
ers approving a constitutional amend
ment Thesday to prohibit same-sex
couples from marrying or entering into
civil unions.
Gay marriage is already banned
under Kansas law, and the law is
not being challenged. But support
ers of the ballot measure say the
ban must be put in the Kansas
Constitution to insulate it from
legal challenge.
“The marriage amendment is an un
fortunate, necessary reaction to activist
courts,” Republican state Attorney
General Phill Kline said.
Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
said she supports the existing state law
and views it as sufficient.
“I don’t think we need a constitu
tional amendment, and particularly a
constitutional amendment that goes
far beyond the bounds of that law,”
she said.
— The Associated Press