Letters to the Editor
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If we're really serious...
Having read several of the posts that point out the advantages of catching criminals and drug smugglers by making the Canadian border more hassle-full, I suggest the following if we're really serious about catching terrorists and other bad guys: a state-based ID card as well as a national ID card and something better than passports which are too easy to forge, retinal scans set up on interstate highways, border crossings at state boundaries to make sure illegal aliens don't make it from Kentucky to Illinois, for example, (cities would be better, let's keep those Chicagoans out of Des Moines), full searches of all vehicles traveling from one county to the next. Just thjink of the advantages: more prisons and border guards. Goodness, we'd have full employment in a week.