It's a bit futile in my opinion. Both of our land borders with Mexico
and Canada are just too large to really stop a determined person from
crossing them unobserved. We need another way to deal with the
terrorism problem. I noticed this summer while I was in Europe that I
still was able to travel quite freely between different countries. I
passed through a lot of border points but never had to produce a
passport. At one point I was renting an apt about 5 klicks from the
swiss italy border and went back and forth between the two countries
several times a day.

JimH wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:

This whole thing of checking in is on the honors system and virtually
unenforceable. And we all know that terrorist will abide by the law and
voluntarily check in.........eh?

No, it isn't an "honor system", and had you been caught your boat would
or could have been seized, you would be subject to fines of tens of
thousands of dollars, and quite possibly face some jail time.

That should sure stop the terrorists from coming in.....eh? ;-)