ryanyoung26@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I would like to advise to the Conservative government of Stephen
> Harper, that the best way, in my humble opinion, to tackle the thorny
> issue of the "secured border document" as requested by the US
> government as a potential substitute for carrying a pass****t when
> crossing the border would be to expand the citizen****p cards issued to
> naturalized citizens to include all Canadian citizens and to make this
> card a counterfeit-proof one by adding one's DNA or other biometric
> characteristics. This card would be rendered a photo ID.
>
> I would strongly argue against the practice of using one's driver's
> license or even a birth certificate to cross the border, as these cards
> are prone to falsification as was in the case of Ahmed Rassam, who in
> 1999, being a landed immigrant of Canada, used a driver's license to
> cross the border, before being intercepted by border guards, on his way
> to carry out a terrorist attack in LA. Besides, driver's licenses do
> NOT reveal the carriers' citizen****p.
You would strongly advise against it because someone using a falsified one
was caught with it at the border? How about the 15 Arabs, mostly Saudis,
who entered the US with valid pass****ts and visas, and lived, worked
and/or
studied in the US for a long time before hijacking a bunch of planes and
flying them into the WTC and Pentagon? Enforcement agencies have
networked
computer systems that allow them to access all sorts of data bases. While
the driver licence may not have information about citizen****p or criminal
records, the information on them can be used to get information from other
data bases that can provide it.
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