Starting in September: Fingerprints required for entry into the USA
Angelika If you are entering the USA soon as a tourist, student, or business traveler and additionally maybe look like a potential terrorist, don't be surprised if the immigration authorities take your fingerprints, photos, and require you to regularly inform them of your exact whereabouts and activities in the USA. Although the authorities do not disclose the exact criteria they use to select certain individuals for this special treatment, I can put two and two together and imagine that it will primarily affect younger men from certain Islamic countries. Initial civil rights groups are protesting that this approach discriminates against Muslims. I predict the following: from time to time, the over-60-year-old German tourist or businessman or a family-of-five will be pulled aside for fingerprinting so that the immigration authorities appear "politically correct." By the way, the fingerprints are immediately fed into the computer to check if there is anything on file against the person in question.
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