[texaspimp]

A few weeks ago I'm in Sarnia Canada, just accross the border from Port Huron Michigan, playing poker in their casino. I leave to go back to my hotel in Michigan and "win" the random inspection card from the US Border Patrol dudes.

I go inside and the agent asks for my ID (driver's license). After I give him the ID, he asks for my passport or birth certificate. I don't own one so I tell the agent this news. He looks up from the computer with that "you've got to be f'ing kidding me" look and says, "You don't have a passport." I reinterate that information. He then says to me, "Why don't you have a passport? This ID is worthless! They give these out in Cracker Jack boxes!". He is even more pissed when I tell him that I don't carry a copy of my birth certificate with me. I mention that I was going to Canada, not Zimbabwe, so I didn't think this was necessary. This statement did not get me on his Christmas card list.

The thing that really angered me over this situation, was the fact that at any given second on the southern border, there are ILLEGAL aliens getting into this country. I, while maybe not carrying ALL of the preferred documention, was a legal citizen simply trying to return home.

Good luck with your situation dude! Evidently, the passport is the way to go. As we all know, passports and BC's cannot be faked!