So do you recommend Americans get a barcode or something to identify us as American?? Color me confused...
Americans should NOT have to have a passport to enter their own county. Everyone else should.
How simple is that?
Asking Americans for a passport to reenter their country is tantamount to....."papers please".
Then, how is it going to be determined if someone is American or not? Whenever I've left the country, I've always had to show my passport upon entry home.
Real simple, except that bad guys could just say "I'm an American, I don't have to show you mine."
When I go to Italy I will need a passport to get into Italy and back into the States. Do you think that's wrong or just wrong to require them for crossing to Canada and Mexico?
So do you recommend Americans get a barcode or something to identify us as American?? Color me confused...
I have a story about this that still pisses me off to this day.
I am stationed in Germany and was flying back to the States about a year and a half ago with my German girlfriend to visit my mother and brother. We were flying into NYC, I think it was at LaGuardia Airport. Anyway, when our plane landed we were instructed to go to get our passports ready to present for entry, being that it was an international flight. So, my girlfriend went to the line for non-US citizens and I went to the line for US citizens. When I got up to the little booth to show my passport, the guy asked me what the address I was going to be at. I told him that I didn't know because I was visiting my mother who had recently moved and she would be at the airport to pick me up. I also showed him my military ID card and again told him that I was stationed in Germany and here, in my country, to visit my family. At this point he told me that I could not enter and that I had to wait somewhere over in the back so he could handle the line that had formed behind me. I told him that I am a citizen of this country, I am in the US Army, showed him my passport and military ID again, and asked to know for what reason he was not letting me in. No answer. Just wait in the back I was told. So, I was mad beyond belief at this point but I stepped aside and waited in the back. After a few minutes I walked back up to the booth to see what was going on and the agent told me that he would get to me when he got to me and that if I bothered him again that he might not be in any hurry to help. So, I waited, and waited, and waited, for 1 hour and nothing. During this time, I saw that my girlfriend had been able to get in with absolutely no problems, she just said that she was with her boyfriend who is American and that she is here as a tourist. Finally, after waiting for an hour, I completely lost it. I went up to the nearest guard/agent/whatever, and demanded to know just why in the hell I was being denied entry after showing my passport and military ID and why the hell it is any of their damn business what address that I, a US citizen entering the country, will be staying at. I literally lost it at this point and a couple of other guards/agents came over to see what was going on. Then, after explaining my situation for what must have been the twentieth time, they decided that they said that they would be "nice" and let me into my own country. Words still cannot describe just how mad I was at this point and how mad I still am today about this crap.
You obviously have not traveled very much. How do you propose Americans identify themselves on their return? Americans must use their passports on return from Europe, Asia, Africa, etc. Canada and Mexico are exceptions.