Border-control theater

Last night Instapundit linked a CaymanNetNews story that reviews the Department of Homeland Security’s new passport-required-for-reentry rules for American citizens travelling to Canada and Latin America.

The new requirement is the final phase of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which requires all American citizens re-entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean to have official proof of identity when crossing the border.

The move is part of a raft of US Government initiatives designed to improve the national security of the United States following the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC in September 2001.
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Before the new rules went into effect, land and sea-based American travellers were only required to show a birth certificate plus a form of government-issued photo ID such as a driver’s licence to regain entry into their country.

More hassle and difficulty for Americans, all in the name of “security.”  This from the agency that can’t seem to spot vanloads of illegal aliens coming in from Mexico, or houses full of illegal aliens^[1] in Arizona.

So I’m supposed to be impressed?


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