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| U.S. to Begin Fingerprinting Aliens |
| 2002-08-13 |
| The Justice Department has chosen Sept. 11 as the starting date for a new program that will require tens of thousands of foreign visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed at the border. Golly. That's barely a year after we were attacked. That's lightning speed for a bureaucracy, I guess... The security program, developed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, will begin at several unnamed ports of entry and will mostly affect those from Muslim and Middle Eastern countries. ACLU will be in court that afternoon... After a 20-day testing period, all remaining ports of entry will implement the new system on Oct. 1, 2002. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the program will correct some of the problems that led to the Sept. 11 attacks. Like crazed killers roaming the country untracked. Now if we could just address the problem of crazed killers roaming the country, tracked or not, we'd be in fine shape... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 They released a list of Middle Eastern countries whose nationals would be fingerprinted upon arrival in the U.S. Guess which nation was missing from this list? Three guesses and the first two don't count! |
| Posted by: the ghost of howard beale 2002-08-13 23:23:22 |