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Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints
A 62-year-old man visiting his relatives in the US was held for four hours by immigration officials after they could not detect his fingerprints because of a cancer drug he was taking. The man was prescribed capecitabine, a drug used to treat cancers in the head, neck, breast, and stomach. Some of the drug's side-effects include chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet, which can cause the skin to peel or bleed. "This can give rise to eradication of fingerprints with time," explained Tan Eng Huat, senior consultant in the medical oncology department at Singapore's National Cancer Center. "Theoretically, if you stop the drug, it will grow back, but details are scanty. No one knows the frequency of this occurrence among patients taking this drug and nobody knows how long a person must be on this drug before the loss of fingerprints," he added.
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Why is four hours a huge deal? I've waited longer than that due to weather, airlines overbooking, and other reasons. As long as they treated him decently for the four hours this should not be a big issue.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
allowing a dangerous wanted person in the country, just because he was sick
You know, if they diagnosed me with a terminal disease, my first thought would be "I know, I'll go to the US to rot in jail!"
Moron. The world doesn't care about your crappy little country. When was the last time a real terrorist was found in a border check?
right, so they don't require fingerprinting. then again, lets look at how many bombings occur in the countries that don't require them and the number of bombings that happen here. sometimes, people confuse intelligent safety protocols with being wussy. usually, we call them idiots.
So, people with no hands are off-limits? Woah, your level of idiocy is beyond words. You're absolutely retarded. They should change the American law to ban people like you from existing.
Stereotyping asshole. There really is nothing wrong with fingerprinting, just like there is nothing wrong with owning a gun. If you abuse your rights, you will suffer the consequences. There is no f-ing police state here. The big question is why the hell do you nitwits associate fingerprinting with criminal activity? Sounds to me like you've seen too many bad movies.
Or maybe we come from countries where only criminals are fingerprinted.
I'm not a criminal. Don't try and treat me like one.
America doesn't welcome visitors, so I don't visit. Fuck you and your parochial small-minded self-obsessed nation.