In honor of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which takes effect today.

[randomness]

"Can I see some ID?" is American for "Papers, please!"

I'm all for everyone getting a passport. I'm against more regulations making it harder to cross borders.

State and Homeland Security’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI).
The American Immigraton Lawyers Association comments on WHTI.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

To be more exact:

EU nationals don't need a passport to travel between the 27 countries of the EU, which have some pretty good external border controls.

So, that's my point: good external border controls, and free movement of peoples within the internal area. The EU is a good example.

(And that's an example in the AILA's comments, which is why I asked.)