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> just like passports are optional

"Border controls aren’t supposed to exist between EU member states – that’s the promise of the 1985 Schengen treaty. Yet today, travelers routinely face checks when crossing borders within the [European] union"

https://euobserver.com/198454/law-professor-sues-germany-for...

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What relevance does that have to the US federal government offering a digital ID verification system on top of existing passport infrastructure?

EU did border checks without digital IDs being a thing, so why couldn’t US states do a border check without digital IDs?

Digital IDs are not a causal factor for these concerns, seeing as how those government abuses already happen without digital IDs.

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