From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Nobody  wrote:   
   >"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>Nobody  wrote:   
   >>>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>>>Nobody  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>And for practical purposes, land crossing such as the Canadian border   
   >>>>>require a passport.  Yeah, yeah, I know: passport cards, enhanced   
   >>>>>driver's licences, and trusted traveller cards such as NEXUS also   
   >>>>>qualify but the majority of casual crossers will be presenting   
   >>>>>passports to return home to the US.  Only a handful of states have   
   >>>>>enhanced licences anyway.   
      
   >>>>Huh? States with international borders have these; other states don't.   
   >>>>Why would other states go to the extraordinary expense of offering them   
   >>>>to their own residents who wouldn't have need for them?   
      
   >>>According to your own Homeland Security people, only FOUR states issue   
   >>>a version that complies with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative:   
      
   >>>   
      
   >>>Go grumble to them if the list isn't current.   
      
   >>I have no idea what you're bitching about.   
      
   >Please look at what YOU wrote: it isn't factually correct...   
      
   >>Those four states have the major ports of entry driving in from   
   >>Canada. Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and   
   >>Maine don't have major ports of entry.   
      
   Before Levine pops in to offer a truly lame insult, I forgot one state   
   with a major land border with Canada: Alaska. Four Canadian provinces   
   have enhanced driver's licenses: British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario,   
   and Quebec. Manitoba has two major 24 hour ports: Sprague and Emerson   
   are 24 hour ports; the others are daytime only or unstaffed.   
      
   I guess ports in Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick aren't   
   busy enough to warrant the program.   
      
   I'm going to make the reasonable assumption that enhanced driver's licenses   
   are offered in states and Canadian provinces in which there would be both   
   benefit and demand, and if other points of entry are lower volume, no one   
   regularly using them would bother to obtain EDL.   
      
   Canadian provinces made the same reasonable assessments as US states did.   
   My original comment that it's not offered in states and provinces with a   
   lack of need stands, and I'll add "even if they're on the international   
   border".   
      
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