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US screening nets 30 criminals in 3 days
Link via Tim Blair. EFL.Americaâs controversial foreign visitor screening program has nabbed 30 criminals in its first three days of operation, an official said yesterday. In Washington, a senior US Homeland Security official said that during the first three days after US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology - or US-VISIT - was installed at 115 US airports, more than 83,000 international passengers had been photographed and fingerprinted. "Among those we have had 30 criminal hits," Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson said. Mr Hutchison cited one case, that of a Salvadoran national stopped late yesterday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. "When he presented his travel documents everything seemed fine but the biometric identification sounded a warning," he said. "Turned out he had used false documents to enter the United States illegally 12 times in the past year and had committed some minor offences." Posted by: seafarious 2004-01-09 |
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