Originally Posted by
emcampbe
Doesn't sound like a downgrade for ‘Nexus cardholders’, but a downgrade for companions of Nexus members that don’t also hold it.
have no issues with this, by the way. IMO, aside from minors, I can’t think of a reason why those who haven’t been vetted as trusted travelers should benefit from procedures designed for those who have been? Now that I think of it, this seems less of a ‘downgrade’, and more of closing a gaping loophole in the system until now.
Certainly not a loophole as the program intentionally decided to include this as a benefit, which delivered a particular parameter to cardholders.
At least myself, and I’m sure other cardholders, found it very valuable to themselves to stick with their co-travellers through a faster security process. The carveouts seem arbitrary; <18s and >75s are eligible for Nexus, so why exempt them? And I would have expected the new rules to be the most restrictive for US, but it’s the opposite.
It’s not a stretch for a program to trust vetted cardholders’ co-travellers by association. Would be interesting to hear if there was any evidence of co-travellers causing safety incidents.
A root problem is that you can’t get your card revoked for CATSA (or TSA) violations (as far as I know, unless you commit some crime that makes you ineligible for customs/imm purposes). This problem continues to exist because a trusted customs program is being used as a trusted security program.