Originally Posted by greatam

Oh, yes they are. Please come visit my small farm area of Arizona. Please observe the illegals bringing the blank forms and cards from Mexico. They fill them out at the illegal owned grocery store 6 miles from my house and office. Then the store owner takes them to LA to the Mexican consulate for "verification". No one from the consulate sees the people they are issued to. No one verifies that "JOSE GONZALES #1" is really that person and not "JOSE GONZALES #2-200" There are 5 guys running around out here, all with the same name on the Matricula cards-Juan Olivio Sanchez. Their real names are Jose, Octavio, Jesus, Jesus #2 and Miguel. Not exactly Juan.

There are probably no more than 10 countries in the world that have such loose documentation to issue a passport.

I will agree that airport ID is a dog and pony show and doesn't do much for security. And sure, the borders should be secured. But who is going to make the first move??? The Canadians are screaming about the US passport law, the Mexicans are screaming about the fence. And Congress sits on it's b***, "DEBATING".