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Section 107
On the Travel Safety/Checkpoints-Border Policy debate forum an opinion is that Mexico is doing this now in exchange/ retaliation/ response to the political debate on immigration. However, the much more likely reason is that is being done after much long time urging by the US Govt which would really like much better information on who and how many people are departing the US.
Much ado about nothing for most people (except those that prefer not to be tracked) - no one seems to mind about document requirements to go into Canada....
That expressed "opinion" about "retaliation" seemed to be a stretch and then some.
Plenty of people mind the document requirements to go into Canada. The USG is still complaining that Canada is allowing foreign visitors -- US persons included -- to legally enter Canada without a passport and/or NEXUS card. Re-entering back into the U.S. from Canada isn't generally a show-stopper for returning US citizens at US POEs without a passport and/or NEXUS card -- even as it most often (but not always) slows down things a bit. And not everyone is happy with the U.S. WHTI that forced the airlines serving the U.S. to generally require passports and/or NEXUS cards for passengers to fly between the U.S. and Canada (in either direction) too.