How many people come into the US by sea? I don't think it's really worth an extra $30 for the ability to visit Canada and Mexico without a passport, especially as most people will have passports anyway.
Obviously the conspiracy theorists will be all over this... I don't care much, being a Brit, although we have similar controversy over identity cards here. Personally it doesn't bother me as I'm not a criminal/am never likely to be a criminal/don't plan on doing anything worthy of attention by the government in my life, so it's never going to affect me. I think too many people have read Nineteen Eighty Four and think any attempt to make things a little more organised is an attempt to take away their civil liberties.
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How many people come into the US by sea? I don't think it's really worth an extra $30 for the ability to visit Canada and Mexico without a passport, especially as most people will have passports anyway.
Obviously the conspiracy theorists will be all over this... I don't care much, being a Brit, although we have similar controversy over identity cards here. Personally it doesn't bother me as I'm not a criminal/am never likely to be a criminal/don't plan on doing anything worthy of attention by the government in my life, so it's never going to affect me. I think too many people have read Nineteen Eighty Four and think any attempt to make things a little more organised is an attempt to take away their civil liberties.