Within 24 hours of returning from foreign waters, at least in south
Florida, everyone who is on board at the time of return are REQUIRED
to present themselves to officials with acceptable ID -- in their
offices, which are in the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami port areas with all
of the suspicious gate security in place and the offices are difficult
to find once inside.

For those who live in some of the Florida Keys, that means a 1.5+/-
hour drive, each way.

Now tell me -- if someone were a stowaway, would he or she knowingly
go to U.S. Immigration?

Someone I know never checks in -- he goes to Bahamas and returns to
middle Keys for a night, at anchor, fishing during part of the night,
before returning to home north of Miami the next day. In more than 14
trips he has not had any trouble. So much for border security. The
extra night he considerd part of the cruise.

This requirement is absurd on its face. It had to have been concocted
by a water averse beaurcrat who lives in a efficiency basement condo
in a remote suburb of Washington, D.C. and drives an old Plymouth.