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- <text id=90TT3263>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: Welcome To Americaland
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 43
- Welcome to Americaland
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- <body>
- <p>By RICHARD ZOGLIN/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> America may be the land of the free, but getting into the
- country by land will not be a free ride much longer. Congress
- has given the Justice Department the right to start collecting
- tolls from automobiles entering the U.S. at various border
- checkpoints. An initial test will take place in March in Blaine,
- Wash.: for a one-time $25 fee, drivers will be allowed unlimited
- crossings in a special "express lane." Tolls of $2 a crossing
- will be tested later. Officials claim the tolls are needed to
- pay for more border agents and to improve facilities at the
- crowded checkpoints. Opponents have complained that poor day
- laborers will be hardest hit by the charges and that instituting
- them is tantamount to "treating the U.S. like a national park."
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- </body>
- </article>
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