[marktwain]

When I came back from Central America (Panama), I thought I was coming back to a free country.

No more checkpoints, to be approached with fear and trepidation.

Once I got to Yuma, I immediately noticed the checkpoints.

This, I thought, in America?

[nopardons]

What is all the hoooooooooo haaaaa about; there was a checkpoint at the Canadian/USA border back in the late '50s, where they checked cars and there wasn't a pot/dope problem back then.

And I bet that few if any here know, that in the late teens /early '20s of the 20th century, you needed a PASSPORT to get into and out of Canada; but Americans did!

[trebb]

No checkpoints = no control....at least on or near borders...
and other know high traffic area....I remember a joke in the 70s: What’s a Texan? A Mexican on his way to Oklahoma....