" ika0530---u need to wake up. Your comments are insults to daily border crossers. Students, Businessmen, people seeking medical care, and shoppers. Long lines creates horrible air pollution, which creates horrible working conditions for the federal employees and crossers. 99.999999 percent of people that cross the borders are guilty of nothing but wanting to cross the border. 911 will never be crease to be, but the governments reaction has gone way to far. Drugs---how can you even use that logic ? Its the demand from Americans that creates drug traffic. Homeland security are federal employees. Border inspectors qualifications are to have finished high school and complete a training school. They are not fantastic heros, they are not fighting war at the front lines, they government employees, accountable to the people. give us break--with your crap. "

" i'd say the government should be more concerned about homeland security than businesses losing their customers. it's not like people won't come to the us anymore just bec. of the long wait. everybody wants to come here, however long the wait is. dept of homeland security's job is not to attract customers for businesses but to protect our nation, hence, the inspection process. city officials should let the officers do their job. they're not there to bow to the city's whims and economic goals. they should be strict at the border at all times. people easily forget about what happened on 911. people crossing the border should respect authority and cooperate so there would be no delays. the officers are not always at fault for the delays. and hello, how can you rush an inspection when the border is the gateway for transporting drugs into the us? it's not like all people who cross the border are innocent. wake up people! "

" I feel your pain, as Clinton said in his presidential campaign, but all of this is a backlash of the events which took place in NY, NY on 9/11/01. The failings of the US government to recognize a threat to the public safety of its citizens is a travesty of public trust by our elected officials. It's been said time and time again, that our leaders have been asleep at the wheel for way to long in guiding our country into the future. I think it's time once again, for America to wake up and put and end to the incompetent politicians by voting them out of office. Wipe the slate clean and get the incumbents out of office. "

" mexico i mean.. not nexico.. los "

" just throwing it out there.. what if mexico started checking every car that entered nexico.? los "

" 1968 i hate the lines "

" I share the same frustrations as 1968, but then I got SENTRI and life is no longer a long line. "

" I cross that border on a regular basis and it is a fact that the problem is with the inspection process. For one, the majority of the inspector take there sweet time asking you the same questions over and over and inspecting your vehicle. All that information is in there system. The system tells them how many time you cross, who the vehicle belongs to, if you have a crimmal record and so forth. Another thing, that add to the wait is fact that their scanners can not read the passports properly and they have to be scanned over and over or the passport imfo must be manually imputted. Can you imagine what is going to happen when the passport requirement go into affect. Local businesses can kiss there stores good-by. I can already see people writing to this papers "OPINION" section praising the delays and saying " if you don't like it, don't cross. Believe me when i tell you and i think i can pretty much speak for all dailey commutter, if it wasn't a necessity, we would not cross. The good thing is that so of them starting to do just that. "