You and a friend are coming back from a wonderful vacation in Mexico. You approach the U.S. port of entry in your car. Your friend is driving and pulls up to the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Officer. Your friend presents his/her passport and the CBP officer inspects the document. However, the officer does not ask you for any identification and does not ask you any questions. The CBP officer the tells your friend/driver that you are ok to enter. Were you properly "admitted" under the INA? Read the recent BIA case of Matter of Quilantan, 25 1&N Dec. 285 (BIA 2010). Attached below. Provide a brief summary of the decision and share your thoughts on this issue. Is this standard a good idea post 9-11? Place your short brief and answer here in the Forum. I am a U.S. citizen, not an alien, returning to the U.S. from a wonderful vacation in Mexico. We are entering the U.S. in a car, at a valid port of entry that is staffed by immigration officials. I am sitting in the passenger seat of the car, in plain view. The Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Officer does not ask me for any identification. In this scenario, I was not properly admitted into the U.S. A U.S. citizen traveling in the Western Hemisphere (which includes Mexico), by land or sea, is required to present a valid WHTI-compliant document. Possible WHTI-compliant documents include U.S. Passport or U.S. Passport Cards. In the current post 9-11 environment, all individuals entering the U.S. should have proper paperwork to verify their identity, which should then be checked against known terrorist or do-not-fly lists. Even if they are not currently on a terrorist list, the entry of people into the country should be recorded to at least provide a record of who has entered the country, where, and when. If they are later added to a terrorist list, it is possible to at least know they entered the country. Currently, there is no process for tracking people that leave the country by land routes. So it is not possible to know if they are still in the country