Since when?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/27/2010 5:12:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Despite new travel requirements, more than 2.3 million Americans reentering the country by land or sea from Mexico or Canada failed to produce a passport, birth certificate or other secure document to establish identity and nationality, a government review has found.
Most people, including about 500,000 in California, were still allowed to pass through ports of entry without the approved documents or without being transferred to a secondary inspection post for a more in-depth examination, according to the report by the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security.
Many travelers were allowed to pass after undergoing extensive questioning and producing at least a driver's license, the report found. Overall, 96% of travelers arriving at the 39 busiest land ports complied with the new law, which took effect in June 2009.
The procedure for processing those without the required documents also needs to be more precise and implemented across the board, the report said.
Despite these findings, the audit concluded that if all those who skirted the rules were referred to a secondary inspection, which is not currently required, the agency would not have the necessary staffing and infrastructure to handle the resulting increase in workload.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agrees with the findings and plans on following the inspector general’s recommendations, said Stephanie Malin, a spokesperson for the agency.
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, approved by Congress last year, requires U.S. travelers reentering the country from Mexico or Canada to present documents, such as a passport or birth certificate, to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
At the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, the busiest land border crossing in the country, a traveler without the proper documents is usually sent to a secondary inspection for further scrutiny, said Jackie Dizdul, a San Diego spokesperson ..
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Please forgive if this is old news. :-}
How do they know they were Americans?
Good question.
It’d be so much easier if they just stuck chips in us or tagged our ears or sumthin’.. better yet, do it at birth.. or a tattoo only visible in black light.. uhhh... or a bar code on your forehead. ;-]
They spoke Spanish?
It could easily be an effort by the Obama administration to manipulate the stats. They claim there are fewer illegals coming over the border. It’s a lot easier to make that case if you dismiss every illegal that comes over merely as an instance where an American forgot to bring his passport.
Heh, heh... Or maybe they did not know math.
Could try branding with branding irons. Wouldn’t nearly everyone on the planet look funny soon after that? ;-)
Good. It chafes my rump to have to go get a stinkin passport just to get back into my own country after visiting Canada which is less than a couple hours away.
You don’t really need a passport. All you have to do is walk backward and tell the cops what a great time you had in America. Works every time.
Now how do you explain the total lack of concern about the 11 to 20 million Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, etc. who entered the country with no documents at all except phony Social Security cards and their Matricula Consular cards? My head is exploding and blood is shooting out of my eyes at the cosmic double-standard!
Shouldn’t there be a fine for failure to properly identify yourself upon re-entry into the USA?
Everyone should refuse to comply until the border is secure everywhere.
Boy, I can see nobody on FR lives near the border. I live 3 miles from Canadian Border and locals come and go as they please; actually is no border (except for the tourists) on the highway. Everybody likes it that way too, no reason for all this talk about terrorism and control. I guess I’ll just continue to visit my friends in Canada and they visit me the same way we always have. You guys go on living in fantasy land, but I suspect it’s much the same along the entire USA/Canada border. I’m for open borders up this way.
You forgot the Kenyans
A few weeks ago the wife and decided on the spur of the moment (we were about 10 minutes away) to go to White Rock, B.C. No passports with us, just driver licenses. We went to the crossing, and the Canadian inspector let us in. She said that, since we were U.S. citizens that the U.S. inspectors would HAVE to let us back in.
Fortunately, she was right. The U.S. inspector joked that the Canadians were very nice to let us in without our passports.
Since when?
Not surprising at all. Hell, we let Zer0 enter the White House without documentation, so why not?
I’m originally from BC and that is true. Just dont cross the Peace Arch..it’s always busy. Grew up on a farm in Sask a “very” few miles away from the USA-CDA border and still remember hiking to get eggs and milk in the US.
Next thing you know, they'll be taking away jobs -- you know, doing the work that illegal immigrants refuse to do.
And demanding Social Security benefits after decades of paying into the system.
Oh, the horror...
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