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Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US
An anonymous reader writes "The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States. From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta. The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers — including US citizens — was allegedly hatched under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants."
You can see how they take little baby steps. One at a time. In ten years imagine what will be happening.
Border lineups will be days long, and the government will be suing SAP for promising that it would work, based on a fraudulent tech demo that's gone missing?
So if I have no hands?
I hope this caused some synapses to fire.
Inspired by a superb role model, the US Department of the Interior wants to "index all the world's fingerprints". I mean, why stop at the border? Offer it as a free service that offers paper stars - enough paper stars and you get a pony. A free pony.
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"Why do you hate America?"(TM) so much that you want to leave?
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Place your thumb here.
Traveler: Ok.
*Presses thumb to scanner*
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Ah-ha! This says that you are in this country illegally! I've got you now!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Sooooo... since I'm not allowed to be in this country, do you want me to get on my plane and leave, or what?
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Yes! And, um, never come back! That'll teach you!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Yes, this punishment of being delayed from my flight for 30 seconds has surely made me so uncomfortable that I won't ever sneak back into this country. You win.
LOL I once met this guy from El Salvador who was in the US illegaly working. After a while, he got sick of it and wanted to go home. Around that time he saw some immigration officers walking down the street, and announced, "I am here illegaly! Send me home!" They laughed and told him to work and get his own ticket. So he gave up and did.
Qxe4
In the early years of The War on Terror, the American city of Cincinnati attracts people from all over the United States. Many are transients trying to get out on the next plane to Canada or even Europe, a few are just trying to make a buck...Two DHS couriers have been killed and the letters of transit they were carrying have gone missing. These letters are blank and represent freedom for two, all the action centers around a cafe ....
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
The word you were looking for there is "facetious", Sparky, not "fescisious".
Does your Dad know you're posting from his Slashdot account?
This has got to be a joke
Homeland security does love a good laugh.
Actually, this is a devious plot on their part.
1. Introduce ridiculously intrusive (yet this side of believable) plan which will do nothing but annoy people, as a pilot program
2. Wait until enough people are annoyed at it or some one in government starts talking about cutting spending on security and doesn't immediately get thrown out of office by voters
3. Announce you've decided not to do it based on feedback/because you don't have enough money to keep america safe
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
You linked to a site sponsored by illuminati conspiracy theorists and homeopathic medicine providers. That's hardly a reliable source. I would trust slashdot before I'd trust that site, and that's saying something.
Qxe4
And, of course, vice-versa.
Maybe that's the problem: ol' Jehovah couldn't tell which group of Semites he was promising the land to, they all look alike to him after all.
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I'm more interested in what they're going to do if I refuse? Throw me out of the country?
Jail. Possibly out of the country (ala Gitmo).
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Tell it to Apache, Navajo, Sioux and the rest... This is just too good - the society of immigrants complaining of... immigrants. :D Yes! Deport them all!!! :D
If you'd read the TSA manual, you'd know that "if it's tanned, put your gloves on and tell it to bend over".
And re telling the difference from a Liberian...
Like TSA employees would know where they'd come from... "yeah, right, like there's a place like Liberion, Ya don't fool me! Bend over mister !"
And just when I thought it was safe to go back (or even switch planes) to the US too...
Well, since I'm blond maybe I'll get through despite my French passport (although French bashing seems to have subsided, outside of web boards).
Don't think the US airport people are the only ones to be clueless though. I travel quite a bit and for some reason, the stupidest they are, the closest to the public they get. It's a worldwide trend. Why would the US be left out ?
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