January 30, 2008 10:41AM 

# Border Chaos Starts Friday 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The Department of Homeland Security will increase document checks at the border starting Friday. The costs of doing this outweigh the miniscule security benefits, as I discuss in [today’s *Detroit News*](http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080130/OPINION01/801300316/1008).

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