Passport to trouble

While the U.S. Congress tries to bolster their electoral fortunes with America's paranoid, the focus on border security has completely blindsided common sense. Not only do mandatory passports for crossing the Canada-U.S. border cause irreparable damage to trade and tourism (approximately 80% of Americans don't have a passport), they also create a market for stolen passports.

This begs the question as to which is actually more secure: A driver's license or photo ID that someone will cling to for dear life because they need it to get behind the wheel or into the liquor store, or a document that's useless until you leave the country, carries an unsmiling portrait, and isn't even stamped when it reaches the U.S.?