U.S. requires fingerprints, photos from foreign visitors

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, January 6, 2004 | Audrey Hudson and S.A. Miller

[JohnHuang2]

Karen Moscrop is not a criminal, but the British citizen still was electronically fingerprinted and digitally photographed when she arrived yesterday at Washington Dulles International Airport.

"It felt odd," said Mrs. Moscrop, who lives in Hyattsville with her husband. But she described the experience upon her return from London as "very easy, very unobtrusive."

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, January 6, 2004

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Timothy Edgar, ACLU legislative counsel, said...

"Information collected for one purpose can be misused for another that has nothing to do with law enforcement or immigration laws,"

"A future Homeland Security Chief Hillary Rodham Clinton could keep tabs on who is coming into this country for abortion protests. We need to know what guidelines are in place" to secure record privacy, Mr. Edgar said.

That's a clever way to word his concerns. He is pointedly targeting conservative readers here. Many conservatives have a knee jerk reaction to the ACLU but they have the same reaction to Hillary. The man is pushing the right buttons.

Hillary as Homeland Security Chief. Scary thought isn't it?

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The fingerprint plague worsens... For more information, see http://www.whyfingerprint.com.