Originally Posted by
kebosabi
For international travel, just implement an exit immigration procedure. Lots of countries do this; that's why they have two stamps to put into our passports: one for entry, second for exit. Probably the UK, US, Mexico and Canada are the only four countries that I know of that doesn't have an exit immigration process.
Absolutely not. I should never have to ask permission to leave a country. It's one of the few things that I think the US does well concerning security and immigration.
Originally Posted by
swag
Can you imagine the mess if the rules were defined by each airline, or each airport? You would have to re-clear security when making a domestic connection, if the originating airline or airport had different rules than your connection.
From a practical point of view, we need a single national standard on what is allowed into the secure area and onto a plane. While I suppose that could be defined by an industry group like the Air Transit Association, the federal government is the obvious choice.
Heck no! Airports/airlines would be free to compete based on "security" vs. security. The passengers would be able to choose airports/airlines that offer the level of security/harassment they feel comfortable participating in. The federal government should have zero say in the matter. It just makes things worse.