[Coop]

How do you determine who is legal vs. illegal without checking their ID's? This is Bush's way of ratifying the Free Trade of the America's without having to have that pesky legislative branch (the will of the people) involved.

Friendly suggestion: Read the article before commenting.

[RockyMtnMan]

Passports are an internationally recognized form of identification (even standardized). Processes are far more streamlined when documents follow a normal recognizable pattern rather than your random birth certificate format.

His logic is completely flawed because if he were interested in "streamlining" access then they would only accept one document from all nationalities, a passport. New passports have electronic bar codes on them an can be "swiped" within seconds and ALL nations have agreed to the standard.