I used to cross the border with just a driver's license, because the drinking age was 19 in Canada. Sometimes the Canadians would search my car on entry, but never had any problems more than that. Coming back, the US side would just check your ID then wave you through.
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Don't they have a border there where they should present some documents? Foreign passport or something? This kind of papers already have photo. And even a name. And many other data.
I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.
so this is really not a big deal.
I wanted to say... something different. Why bother with photographing if they already have photos of travelers? Sounds illogical.
Maybe to match against the passport photos. Some people travel with other similar-looking people's IDs, and it can be missed by inspectors. So having an current photo of the traveler can be used in post-hoc investigations to determine if they did so.