First, hello to everyone, first time poster, long time luker.:)
Second - there's no marginalization taking place, only a method of keeping track of who enters and exits our country...
People hear fingerprinting and "mugshots" (it's a photograph guys, relax) and immediately associate it with prisons. Well, they're not being put into prisons, they're allowed to freely roam on our soil and are protected by all of the rights of citizens for as long as they are on this soil.
However, if they break the law, we now can indentify them quicker than we could have previously, simply because we have instituted a couple of old-school tracking manuevers... nothing hi-tech about ones fingerprints, and we're not attaching a GPS sensor to thier ankles.
The one problem I have with this is that we're not doing it across the board - Mexico for some reason is exempt from this type of scrutiny.
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First, hello to everyone, first time poster, long time luker. :)
Second - there's no marginalization taking place, only a method of keeping track of who enters and exits our country ...
People hear fingerprinting and "mugshots" (it's a photograph guys, relax) and immediately associate it with prisons. Well, they're not being put into prisons, they're allowed to freely roam on our soil and are protected by all of the rights of citizens for as long as they are on this soil.
However, if they break the law, we now can indentify them quicker than we could have previously, simply because we have instituted a couple of old-school tracking manuevers... nothing hi-tech about ones fingerprints, and we're not attaching a GPS sensor to thier ankles.
The one problem I have with this is that we're not doing it across the board - Mexico for some reason is exempt from this type of scrutiny.