Napolitano will fight over passports on Canadian border

This has been foreshadowed, but DHS and the Obama Administration are now publicly taking a difficult political stand for homeland security, essentially telling Louise Slaughter and other northern state reps that the deadline for passports on the Canadian land border will be enforced.

If you're looking for signs that the  Administration is willing to support homeland security even when inconvenient, this is it.  It was an early test, but the Administration didn't blink.