[lelio]

are only as good as the humans who deal with them
Very good point. I'm sure the border agents that work on the Washington / Canadian border will know to be on the lookout for stamp #2350124 but what about those down at Mexico? Is the INS going to put out an ABP for everyone that is stamped with that particular ID? I would like to think so, but I doubt it.

[MarMema]

INS here is a joke. We had a child in our home who was a foreign citizen and his visa was about to expire. Our adoption agency called INS to ask them about it and they said to not worry, they had no time to track down all the illegal aliens in this state and they were not going to come and get this child.
We ended up taking him to Moscow to be adopted on the day his visa expired, only because getting out on the expired visa may have caused us problems.

[MarMema]

Right, and for all we know, those stamps are in New York by now or something. In fact they probably planned to steal them out here for use on the east coast.