I have to present my passport to get on a plane, enter into another country, register into a hotel and return to this country. I have to show either my passport card (another passport-like ID in the US) or my RealID-equipped drivers license to fly within the US. They also make me stand in front of a camera.

Nearly every nation on earth does this. It's nothing new. We have the technology and the means. This isn't a problem.