A very small step in the right direction

My Way News - U.S. to Tighten Border Controls by 2008:
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday."

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this policy. But it won't make us very much safer, only a little. This may help tighten things up a bit at airports, seaports, and land crossings - but mostly it is designed to ease the work for inspectors and maybe speed processing by reducing to one or two the types of identification that must be examined.

However, this will do nothing to solve the big problem for our country which is the vastly undermanned southern border (not that the northern border has sufficient control either). That will not happen unless the people get serious and start throwing out Congress-critters who don't fight for us on this issue. Until then, we will get policies like this one that primarily address the needs of the bureaucracy and business interests.