Your Passport, Please
"Beginning today, citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda are now required to present a passport to enter the United States when arriving by air from any part of the Western Hemisphere." So says DHS.
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO of the Associated Press has the story. She quotes John Golden, of Columbus, Georgia, who declared, "I’d rather be going through a security check, than possibly being blown out of the air because of lack of security measures," as he headed for Cancun.
But the experts tell us that photo IDs, whether passports or driver licenses, merely give us an "illusion of security."