Washington – Senators working on a bipartisan immigration bill have agreed to require fingerprinting when foreigners leave the country through any of the nation’s 30 busiest airports.
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It’s a step toward the more expansive biometric system favored by many senators but deemed too expensive to include in the bill.
Under the amendment by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the nation’s 10 busiest airports would have to establish a fingerprinting system within two years. Within six years it would have to be in place at the 30 busiest airports.
The amendment passed 13 to 5 Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee plunged into its third week of deliberations on the immigration legislation.
Lawmakers have cited the absence of a reliable system to track people coming and going as a major security flaw.
Isnt that why we have passports – now with a chip – to track everyone entering & leaving the country?
They are basically saying that passports are useless at tracking anyone.
They already have fingerprinting for green card holders entering the US – why not for all foreigners as well. Add it for them leaving too. And why wait SIX YEARS to set it up??? and still it wont be in all airports – those trying to avoid this new system will just use the other million airports in the country!
Guess which places will not be so busy any more? Number 31 will be the new big one…
What if somebody uses a forged passport??
Fingerprinting when leaving?
How about when they come in?!