Why is this news? Shouldn’t this have been done all along?
“U.S. Taking Photos and Fingerprints Of Visitors”
The United States began fingerprinting and photographing foreigners arriving at U.S. airports and ports yesterday in an effort to track down wanted criminals and suspected terrorists and identify visitors who overstay visas…
The program has attracted a wide range of critics. Airports worry that it will exacerbate immigration lines. Civil libertarians raise privacy concerns that the government will use the data for purposes beyond tracking visas and criminals. A Brazilian judge said the system discriminates against certain foreigners and has ordered officials in his country to begin photographing and fingerprinting American visitors.
They’re kidding, right? Who cares what a Brazilian judge has to say about the security of the United States? Am I on candid camera?
