Oh sure they are.It won't matter if you're a college student looking to party in Puerto Peñasco for spring break or a tourist shopping for inexpensive prescription drugs in Nogales, the Bush administration wants U.S. citizens traveling to Mexico to have a passport to return home.
The proposed passport requirements, unveiled Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, would be phased in by the end of 2007 and would apply to U.S. citizens visiting Canada, Bermuda and the rest of the Americas. Canadians and most Mexicans would be required to produce a passport to enter the United States.[...]
Dubbed the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the proposed changes would begin at the end of this year. The administration is seeking public comment over the next several months before finalizing the regulations.
Perhaps the record of where you go and how often doesn't appear on your driver's license, eh?
Passports aren't cheap.
Americans live under the law of presumed innocent until proven guilty. Americans are free people. We can come and go on personal trips without being monitored by the State, unlike people in countries ruled by tyrants where the people aren't free.
Yeah. Sure.
I predict it will most likely add to the phony identity trade, given there'll be a bunch of drunken college students in Mexico with passports to be stolen.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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