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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Where does border patrol operate? Do they patrol every street and do illegal immigrant check points throughout the state?
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Not around here, they only operate within 75 miles of the border. After 9/11, there were checkpoints along two roads near my house. It tied up traffic beyond belief. The joke was, you knew it was up there because traffic was all backed up, so we would just turn into a subdivision and get to another major road to get around it. It was a hassle for a couple months, then it went away. I can't imagine they thought it would be effective when there were so many alternate routes around the checkpoints.
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Originally Posted by epchick
It's mandatory now due to the new law....although I don't know how well it is enforced. It used to be that you only needed a passport when you head a certain amount of miles past a major city, but now you need one to cross.
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Michigan has enhanced driver's licenses now that can be used as passports within North America, to come back over from Canada, mainly. I know a lot of people who travel back and forth frequently got the enhanced license so they don't have to carry their passport with them all the time. In particular, the boaters like them. It can handle water damage, a passport can't. I never
considered whether these are available in any state or just border states or what.
I can't imagine we'll ever have a huge problem with illegal Canadians coming here. They have it good up there!