jamesgangnc wrote:
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.


Customs regulations are primarily designed to stop smugglers and
illegal immigrants, (ha!), not deter terrorism. In fact, the primary
mission of customs is to make sure that all goods coming into the
country are taxed.