More than 18 months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors were supposed to start enforcing stringent ID requirements at the nation's land borders, millions of travelers are still being admitted without passports or other secure IDs, a new government audit shows. [More]"Millions."
If that doesn't prove the whole thing is an illusion, nothing does.
Remember that as they grope your junk. And when the next mass attack happens. And when the government uses that as the excuse to impose further controls on you.